Boris Zilber (Russian: Борис Иосифович Зильбер, born 1949) is a Soviet-British mathematician who works in mathematical logic, specifically model theory.

He obtained his doctorate (Candidate of Sciences) from the Novosibirsk State University in 1975 under the supervision of Mikhail Taitslin[1] and his habilitation (Doctor of Sciences) from the Saint Petersburg State University in 1986.

[4] Zilber is well known for his seminal work around several fundamental problems in mathematics, mostly in the broad area of geometric model theory.

[5] In particular, his trichotomy conjecture on the nature of strongly minimal sets has been extremely influential in geometric stability theory.

[6] Although it is false in full generality (refuted by Ehud Hrushovski), it holds in many important settings, e.g. Zariski geometries, and has been successfully applied to several problems including the Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields.