Sergei Natanovich Bernstein

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Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
Born 5 March 1880
Odessa, Imperial Russia
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.

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