Boyan Lazarov Petkanchin, Academician, Professor DSc

Boyan Lazarov Petkanchin, Academician, Professor DSc

Scientific area
Geometry, axiomatics of various geometries, integral and differential geometry, mathematical logic

Scientific achievements

• Construction of two-dimensional real and complex Möbius geometry;
• construction of biaxial geometry and its generalisations;
• integral geometry of elliptic space;
• construction of foundations of mathematics and projective geometry

Positions held
1971 – 1982 – deputy secretary and deputy chairman • Editorial and Publishing Council of BAS
1963 – 1970 – deputy director • Institute of Mathematics – BAS
1951 – head and scientific secretary • Section of Geometry and Topology at the Institute of Mathematics – BAS
1948 – 1971 – head • Department of Geometry at the Faculty of Mathematics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Humboldt research stays in Germany
1934 – 1935 – Hamburg, University of Hamburg. Academic host: Prof. W. Blaschke

Honours

• Dimitrov Prize (1959)
• People’s Worker of Science (1984)