Bella Subbotovskaya
Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya | |
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Белла Абрамовна Субботовская | |
Subbotovskaya in 1961 | |
| Born | December 17, 1937 |
| Died | November 23, 1982 (aged 44) |
| Cause of death | Car crash (suspected assassination) |
| Resting place | Vostryakovo Jewish Cemetery, Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University |
| Known for | Boolean formula complexity Jewish People's University |
| Spouse |
Ilya Muchnik (m. 1961–1971) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical logic Mathematics education |
| Thesis | "A criterion for the comparability of bases for the realisation of Boolean functions by formulas" (1963) |
| Academic advisors | Oleg Lupanov |
Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (17 December 1937 – 23 September 1982) was a Soviet mathematician who founded the short-lived Jewish People's University (1978–1983) in Moscow. The school's purpose was to offer free education to those affected by structured anti-Semitism within the Soviet educational system. Its existence was outside Soviet authority and it was investigated by the KGB. Subbotovskaya herself was interrogated a number of times by the KGB and shortly thereafter was hit by a truck and died, in what has been speculated was an assassination.