Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
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Sergei Natanovich Bernstein |
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Born | 5 March 1880 Odessa, Imperial Russia |
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Died | 26 October 1968 Moscow, USSR |
Residence | USSR |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Field | Mathematics |
Institution | University of Paris |
Alma Mater | University of Paris |
Academic Advisor | Charles Émile Picard David Hilbert |
Notable Students | Vasilii Goncharov |
Known for | Bernstein's inequality Bernstein polynomial Bernstein's theorem |
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Сергей Натанович Бернштейн, sometimes Romanized as Bernshtein) (March 5, 1880 - October 26, 1968) was a Ukrainian mathematician who was born in Odessa, Imperial Russia and died in Moscow, USSR.
His doctoral dissertation, submitted in 1904 to the Sorbonne, solved Hilbert's nineteenth problem on the analytic solution of elliptic differential equations.