  Boris R. Vainberg was born on March 17, 1938, in Moscow. His father was a
Lead Engineer in an aviation design institute. His mother was a homemaker. From
early age, Boris was attracted to mathematics and spent much of his time at
home and in school working through collections of practice problems for the
Moscow Mathematical Olympiad. His first mathematical library consisted of the
books he received as one of the prize-winners of these olympiads.
