Biographies of outstanding Ukrainian mathematicians

This section is still in progress. Entries are ordered in alphabetical order by the surname of the mathematician
Saturday, 08 April 2017 20:01

AKHIEZER, Naum (1901 - 1980)

Naum Il'ich Akhiezer's father was the medical doctor for the district in and around Cherikov. The town of Cherikov, called Cherykau in Belarusian, had around 5500 inhabitants when Naum Il'ich…
Saturday, 09 April 2022 02:05

BERNSTEIN, Sergei (1880 - 1968)

Sergei Bernstein's name is often transliterated as Bernshtein and, just occasionally, as Bernshteyn. His father was Natan Osipovich Bernstein (1836-1891), a medical doctor and also an extraordinary professor at the…
Saturday, 26 March 2022 20:41

GRAVE, Dmytro (1863 - 1939)

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave's (ukrainian: Dmytro Oleksandrovych Grave (editor)) parents were Barbara Leonidivna and Aleksandr Ivanovich Grave who was a member of the local gentry. The family, consisting of Dmitry Aleksandrovich,…
Friday, 16 October 2015 18:27

KRAVCHUK, Mykhailo (1892 - 1942)

There are many different transliterations of Mikhail Krawtchouk's name, the forms Kravchuk and Krawtschuk also being used. The form used here "Krawtchouk" is the spelling used in the papers which…
Saturday, 01 July 2017 20:05

KREIN, Mark (1907 - 1989)

Mark G Krein's father was involved in the wood trade which meant that the family had little money. The fact that the family were Jewish meant that Krein grew up…
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 09:57

LOPATYNSKY, Yaroslav (1906 - 1981)

Yaroslav Borisovich Lopatynsky (or Lopatinskii) attended Baku State University in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, graduating in 1926. He continued to study at the graduate school of the university but…
Saturday, 01 July 2017 20:38

MYTROPOLSKYI, Yurii (1916 - 2008)

Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskii's name is often transliterated as Mitropolsky or Mytropolsky and occasionally as Mytropolskiy or Mitropolskiy. His father, Aleksei Savvich Mitropolskii, had attended St Petersburg University but was called…
Saturday, 26 September 2015 10:11

OSTROGRADSKII, Mykhailo (1801 - 1961)

Mikhail Vasilevich Ostrogradski's (ukrainian: Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrogradskii (editor)) father Vasili Ivanovich Ostrogradski, was a landowner but, although the family had leading citizens as relations, they were poor. Mikhail's mother was…
Saturday, 09 April 2022 00:55

SAMOILENKO, Anatolii (1938 - 2020)

Anatolii Mykhailovych Samoilenko was an outstanding scientist-mathematician in the field of ordinary differential equations and the theory of nonlinear oscillations, founder of the famous scientific school in the theory of…
Tuesday, 01 September 2015 21:01

SKOROKHOD, Anatolii (1930 - 2011)

This article is devoted to an outstanding mathematician and excellent teacher A. V. Skorokhod, who recently passed away. The introductory part has been written by V. Buldygin (who died in…
Saturday, 09 April 2022 01:22

VORONOY, Georgy (1868-1908)

Georgy Voronoy's name is sometimes written as Georgii Voronoi. His father owned property at Zhuravka, Poltava province, where Georgy was born. His father was a professor at the Nezhinsk lycée,…