Pavel Alexandrov
Soviet mathematician (1896–1982) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Moscow-based mathematician. For the Leningrad-based mathematician, see Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov. For the lawyer and state official of the Russian Empire, see Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov.
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.
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Born | Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (1896-05-07)7 May 1896 |
Died | 16 November 1982(1982-11-16) (aged 86) |
Nationality | Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Dmitri Egorov Nikolai Luzin |
Doctoral students | Aleksandr Kurosh Lev Pontryagin Yu. M. Smirnov Petru Soltan Andrey Tikhonov Lev Tumarkin |
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