# Boris Weisfeiler

> Boris Weisfeiler was a Soviet-born mathematician and professor at Penn State University who lived in the United States before disappearing in Chile in 1985. Declassified US documents suggest a Chilean army patrol seized Weisfeiler and took him to Colonia Dignidad, a secretive Germanic agricultural commune set up in Chile in the 1960s. During the Chilean Pinochet military dictatorship Boris Weisfeiler allegedly drowned. He is known for the Weisfeiler filtration, Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and Kac-Weisfeiler conjectures.

*Russian mathematician*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1941-04-19
- **Died:** 1985-01-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.3 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 6.2 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Вейсфейлер, Борис Юльевич](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%AE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [بوريس وايسفيلر](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451733)

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