Konstantin Posse

Konstantin Posse
Born	(1847-09-29)September 29, 1847
Died	August 24, 1928(1928-08-24) (aged 80)
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Odessa State University
Alma mater	St. Petersburg State University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Veniamin Kagan D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi

Konstantin Alexandrovich Posse (Russian: Константин Александрович Поссе; St. Petersburg, September 29, 1847 – Leningrad, August 24, 1928) was a Russian mathematician know for contributions to analysis and in particular approximation theory.^[1] Veniamin Kagan and D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi were among his students.

Selected publications

Possé, C. (1885). "Quelques remarques sur une certaine question de minimum". Mathematische Annalen 26 (4): 593–596. doi:10.1007/BF01444256. ISSN 0025-5831. JFM 18.0325.01.
Possé, C. (1886). Sur quelques applications des fractions continues algébriques. St. Petersburg. JFM 18.0161.02.

Notes

↑ Steffens, Karl-Georg (2006). The history of approximation theory. From Euler to Bernstein. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, Inc. pp. 114–119. doi:10.1007/0-8176-4475-X. ISBN 978-0-8176-4353-9. MR 2190312.

Bibliography

Сергеев, А.А. (1997). Константин Александрович Поссе, 1847–1928. Научно-биографическая литература (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. ISBN 5-02-003692-7.

External links

Konstantin Posse at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 40125804 LCCN: n99056904 ISNI: 0000 0001 1626 1748 GND: 116276924 SUDOC: 101396309 MGP: 99029

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