Boris Tsirelson
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Boris Tsirelson (born May 4, 1950, Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a mathematician who, since 1991, has lived and worked in Israel. The great-nephew of the chief rabbi of Bessarabia from 1918 to 1941, he was part of the refusenik movement in the Soviet Union and was only able to emigrate to Israel in 1991, where he is now a professor at Tel-Aviv University. His M.S. was obtained from Saint Petersburg State University in Leningrad and he also received his 1975 PhD while in Leningrad.
Tsirelson has made contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, including Tsirelson's bound, Tsirelson space, and Tsirelson drift.
He was a contributor to the Citizendium.