Elena Ivanovna Deza (Russian: Елена Ивановна Деза, née Panteleeva; born 23 August 1961) is a French and Russian mathematician known for her books on metric spaces and figurate numbers.
Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in Volgograd, and is a French and Russian citizen.
She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1983, a candidate's degree (doctorate) in mathematics and physics in 1993, and a docent's certificate in number theory in 1995, all from Moscow State Pedagogical University.
[1] From 1983 to 1988, Deza was an assistant professor of mathematics at Moscow State Forest University.
In 1988 she moved to Moscow State Pedagogical University; she became a lecturer there in 1993, a reader in 1994, and a full professor in 2006.