Alexander Arhangelskii

Arhangelskii was the son of Vladimir Alexandrovich Arhangelskii and Maria Pavlova Radimova, who divorced by the time he was four years old. He was raised in Moscow by his father, a former aeronautical engineer turned concert pianist who worked as an associate professor for the Moscow Conservatory. He was also close to his uncle, childless aircraft designer Alexander Arkhangelsky. In 1954, Arhangelskii entered Moscow State University, where he became a student of Pavel Alexandrov. At the end of his first year, Arhangelskii told Alexandrov that he wanted to specialize in topology. His first student to earn a Ph.D. did so in 1965, and his second, Mitrofan Cioban, earned his in 1969. Arhangelskii introduced the concept of a core of a locally compact space. ==Selected publications==

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