Pavel Alexandrov
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Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Alexandroff or Aleksandrov (May 7, 1896–November 16, 1982) was a Russian mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. He was made a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1953.
Alexandrov went to a Moscow State University where he was a student of Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin. Together with Pavel Urysohn, he visited the University of Göttingen in 1923 and 1924. After getting his Ph.D. in 1927, he continued to work at the Moscow State University and also joined the Steklov Mathematical Institute.
Alexandrov had a number of students, including Aleksandr Kurosh, Lev Pontryagin and Andrey Tychonoff.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Pavel Alexandrov". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Pavel Alexandrov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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