Alexander Mihailovich Zamorzaev (; 27January 1927 â 1November 1997) was a Soviet mathematician and crystallographer. In 1953 Zamorzaev was the first to derive the complete list of magnetic space groups (Shubnikov groups). In 1957 Zamorzaev founded the field of generalised antisymmetry by introducing the concept of more than one kind of two-valued antisymmetry operation (multiple antisymmetry).
Zamorzaev was born on 23 January 1927 in Leningrad. In 1953 at the University of Leningrad, under the supervision of A.D. Aleksandrov, he gained the M.A. degree with the dissertation Generalization of Fedorov groups, in which he developed the general theory of antisymmetry. In this work he derived for the first time the 1651 antisymmetry space groups, and named them "Shubnikov groups", after A.V. Shubnikov the pioneer of antisymmetry.
In 1953 he became a mathematics lecturer at the newly opened University of Kishinev (ChiÃÂinÃÂu). Besides teaching the regular mathematics curriculum, and supervising graduate students, Zamorzaev devised and taught new courses in the areas of discrete geometry, theoretical crystallography, and antisymmetry and its generalisations.
In 1971 he gained his doctoral degree with a thesis entitled Theory of Antisymmetry and its Different Generalizations. The thesis was based on his new theories of geometry and mathematical crystallography, 1) multiple antisymmetry; 2) similarity and conformal symmetry; and 3) P-symmetry, including generalisations of A. V. Shubnikov's antisymmetry and N. V. Belov's color symmetry.
In 1973 a department of higher geometry was established within the university and Zamorzaev was appointed as professor and head of the department. A history of the personnel and achievements of Zamorzaev's school of geometry is available online.
The majority of Zamorzaev's works were published in Russian. Books published by Zamorzaev:
Zamorzaev published 110 papers. Selected papers available in English: