  Georgy Theodosiyovych Voronoi (1868-1908) is famous for his seminal
contributions to number theory,perhaps mostly those involving quadratic forms
and Voronoi tessellations. He was born and grew up in the town of Zhuravka in
the Ukraine, at the time part of the Russian Empire. Having studied at St.
Petersburg University under the supervision of Andrey Markov, in 1894 he became
a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In his career he
published six large memoirs and six short papers, each of which were so
profound and significant that they left a deep trace in modern number theory.
Together with Minkowski, he can be considered as the founder of the Geometry of
Numbers. In this contribution, a brief sketch will be given of his life, work
and legacy.
