Zolotarev worked with Korkin on quadratic forms. Hermite had posed the problem of finding the minimal values of quadratic forms in n variables whose coefficients were real.
Zolotarev nagtrabaho sa Korkin sa parisukat form. Hermite had posed ang problema ng paghahanap ng mga ang pinakamaliit na halaga ng mga forms sa parisukat n variable na ang coefficients ay tunay.