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A ''' •
Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of
AVL tree algorithm, developer of
Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion •
Sergei Adian, known for his work in
group theory, especially on the
Burnside problem •
Aleksandr Aleksandrov, developer of
CAT(k) space and
Alexandrov's uniqueness theorem in geometry •
Pavel Alexandrov, author of the
Alexandroff compactification and the
Alexandrov topology •
Dmitri Anosov, developed
Anosov diffeomorphism •
Vladimir Arnold, an author of the
Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem in
dynamical systems, solved
Hilbert's 13th problem, raised the
ADE classification and
Arnold's rouble problems
B •
Alexander Beilinson, influential mathematician in
representation theory,
algebraic geometry and
mathematical physics •
Sergey Bernstein, developed the
Bernstein polynomial,
Bernstein's theorem and
Bernstein inequalities in probability theory •
Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist, author of the
edge-of-the-wedge theorem,
Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem,
describing function and multiple important contributions to
quantum mechanics •
Vladimir Berkovich, developed
Berkovich spaces •
Viktor Bunyakovsky, noted for his work in theoretical mechanics and number theory, and is credited with an early discovery of the
Cauchy–Schwarz inequality •
Leonid Berlyand,
PDE theorist, worked on
asymptotic homogenization methods,
Humboldt Prize winner
C ''' •
Georg Cantor, inventor of
set theory. Cantor was born into the Russian Empire, moving to Saxony with his family at age 11. •
Sergey Chaplygin, author of
Chaplygin's equation important in
aerodynamics and notion of
Chaplygin gas. •
Nikolai Chebotaryov, author of
Chebotarev's density theorem •
Pafnuti Chebyshev, prominent tutor and founding father of Russian mathematics, contributed to
probability,
statistics and
number theory, author of the
Chebyshev's inequality,
Chebyshev distance,
Chebyshev function,
Chebyshev equation etc. •
Sergei Chernikov, significant contributor to both infinite group theory (developer of Chernikov groups), and linear programming.
D •
Boris Delaunay, inventor of
Delaunay triangulation, organised the first
Soviet Student Olympiad in mathematics •
Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician and theoretical physicist, introduced
quantum groups and
ADHM construction,
Fields Medal winner •
Eugene Dynkin, developed
Dynkin diagram,
Doob–Dynkin lemma and
Dynkin system in
algebra and
probability E ''' •
Dmitri Egorov, known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. •
Leonhard Euler, preeminent 18th century mathematician, arguably the greatest of all time, made important discoveries in
mathematical analysis,
graph theory and
number theory, introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation (
mathematical function,
Euler's number,
Euler circles etc.) Although Swiss born Euler spent most of his life in
St. Petersburg.
F •
Ivan Fesenko, number theorist •
Anatoly Fomenko, topologist and chronologist, put forth a controversial theory of the
New Chronology • Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (also spelled Friedman or Fridman); He was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He originated the pioneering theory that the universe is expanding, governed by a set of equations he developed known as the Friedmann equations. Alexander Friedmann Known for Friedmann equations Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric •
Yevgraf Fyodorov, mathematician and crystallographer, identified
Periodic graph in geometry, the first to catalogue all 230
space groups of crystals
G ''' •
Boris Galerkin, developed the
Galerkin method in
numerical analysis •
Israel Gelfand, major contributor to numerous areas of mathematics, including
group theory,
representation theory and
linear algebra, author of the
Gelfand representation,
Gelfand pair,
Gelfand triple,
integral geometry etc. •
Alexander Gelfond, author of
Gelfond's theorem, provided means to obtain infinite number of
transcendentals, including
Gelfond–Schneider constant and
Gelfond's constant,
Wolf Prize in Mathematics winner •
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin, of
Gerschgorin circle theorem fame •
Sergei Godunov, developed
Godunov's theorem and
Godunov's scheme in
differential equations •
Valery Goppa, inventor of
Goppa codes, and
algebraic geometry codes in the field of
algebraic geometry •
Mikhail Gromov, a prominent developer of
geometric group theory, inventor of
homotopy principle, introduced
Gromov's compactness theorem,
Gromov norm,
Gromov product etc., Wolf Prize winner
K ''' •
Leonid Kantorovich, mathematician and economist, founded
linear programming, introduced the
Kantorovich inequality and
Kantorovich metric, developed the theory of
optimal allocation of resources,
Nobel Prize in Economics winner •
Anatoly Karatsuba, developed the
Karatsuba algorithm (the first fast
multiplication algorithm) •
David Kazhdan, Soviet, American and Israeli mathematician, Representation theory, Category theory,
Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture,
Kazhdan-Margulis theorem,
Kazhdan property (T). Held
MacArthur Fellowship,
Israel Prize,
Shaw prize in Mathematics, doctoral adviser of
Vladimir Voevodsky (
Fields Medal recipient) •
Leonid Khachiyan, developed the
Ellipsoid algorithm for
linear programming •
Aleksandr Khinchin, developed the
Pollaczek-Khinchine formula,
Wiener–Khinchin theorem and
Khinchin inequality in
probability theory •
Askold Khovanskii, inventor of the theory of
Fewnomials, contributions to the theory of
toric varieties,
Jeffery–Williams Prize winner •
Andrey Kolmogorov, preeminent 20th century mathematician, Wolf Prize winner; multiple contributions to mathematics include:
probability axioms,
Chapman–Kolmogorov equation and
Kolmogorov extension theorem in
probability;
Kolmogorov complexity etc. •
Maxim Kontsevich, author of the
Kontsevich integral and
Kontsevich quantization formula, Fields Medal winner •
Aleksandr Korkin, •
Vladimir Kotelnikov, pioneer in
information theory, an author of fundamental
sampling theorem •
Sofia Kovalevskaya, first woman professor in Northern Europe and Russia, the first female professor of mathematics, discovered the
Kovalevskaya top •
Mikhail Kravchuk, developed the
Kravchuk polynomials and
Kravchuk matrix •
Mark Krein, developed the
Tannaka–Krein duality,
Krein–Milman theorem and
Krein space, Wolf Prize winner •
Alexander Kronrod, developer of
Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula and
Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion •
Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov, first developed the method of
Krylov subspace, still widely used numerical method for linear problems •
Nikolay Krylov, author of the
edge-of-the-wedge theorem,
Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem and
describing function •
Aleksandr Kurosh, author of the
Kurosh subgroup theorem and
Kurosh problem in
group theory L ''' ''' •
Olga Ladyzhenskaya, made major contributions to solution of
Hilbert's 19th problem and important
Navier–Stokes equations •
Evgeny Landis, inventor of
AVL tree algorithm •
Vladimir Levenshtein, developed the
Levenshtein automaton,
Levenshtein coding and
Levenshtein distance •
Boris Levin, Mathematician, famous for his theory of entire functions of completely regular growth; in 1956 established and led influential for almost 40 years mathematical seminar at Kharkov university, Ukraine •
Leonid Levin, computer scientist, developed the
Cook-Levin theorem •
Yuri Linnik, developed
Linnik's theorem in
analytic number theory •
Nikolai Lobachevsky, a
Copernicus of Geometry who created the first
non-Euclidean geometry (
Lobachevskian or
hyperbolic geometry) •
Lazar Lyusternik, Mathematician, famous for work in topology and differential geometry. Codevelops Lyusternik-Schnirelmann theory with
Lev Schnirelmann. •
Nikolai Lusin, developed
Luzin's theorem,
Luzin spaces and
Luzin sets in
descriptive set theory •
Aleksandr Lyapunov, founder of
stability theory, author of the
Lyapunov's central limit theorem,
Lyapunov equation,
Lyapunov fractal,
Lyapunov time etc.
M ''' •
Leonty Magnitsky, a director of the
Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, author of the principal Russian 18th century textbook in mathematics •
Anatoly Maltsev, researched
decidability of various
algebraic groups, developed the
Malcev algebra •
Yuri Manin, author of the
Gauss–Manin connection in
algebraic geometry,
Manin-Mumford conjecture and
Manin obstruction in
diophantine geometry •
Grigory Margulis, worked on
lattices in
Lie groups, Wolf Prize and
Fields Medal winner •
Andrey Markov, Sr., invented the
Markov chains, proved
Markov brothers' inequality, author of the
hidden Markov model,
Markov number,
Markov property,
Markov's inequality,
Markov processes,
Markov random field,
Markov algorithm etc. •
Andrey Markov, Jr., author of
Markov's principle and
Markov's rule in logics •
Yuri Matiyasevich, author of
Matiyasevich's theorem in
set theory, provided a negative solution for
Hilbert's tenth problem •
Mikhail Menshikov, probabilist •
Alexander Mikhailov, coined the term
Informatics •
David Milman, Mathematician, famous for his method of extreme points and centers that started geometry of Banach Spaces, and had numerous further applications in Mathematics. It starts with his theorem of extreme points that entered all text books in functional analysis, as Krein-Milman theorem
N •
Mark Naimark, author of the
Gelfand–Naimark theorem and
Naimark's problem •
Pyotr Novikov, solved the
word problem for groups and
Burnside's problem •
Sergei Novikov, worked on
algebraic topology and
soliton theory, developed
Adams–Novikov spectral sequence and
Novikov conjecture, Wolf Prize and Fields Medal winner
O •
Andrei Okounkov,
infinite symmetric groups and
Hilbert scheme researcher, Fields Medal winner •
Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist, author of
divergence theorem and
partial fractions in integration P •
Grigori Perelman, made landmark contributions to
Riemannian geometry and
topology, proved
Geometrization conjecture and
Poincaré conjecture, won a
Fields Medal and the first Clay
Millennium Prize Problems Award (declined both) •
Lev Pontryagin, blind mathematician, developed
Pontryagin duality and
Pontryagin classes in topology, and
Pontryagin's minimum principle in
optimal control •
Yury Prokhorov, author of the
Lévy–Prokhorov metric and
Prokhorov's theorem in
probability R •
Alexander Razborov,
mathematician and
computational theorist who won the
Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 and the
Gödel Prize for contributions to
computer sciences S ''' ''' ''' •
Numan Yunusovich Satimov, specialist in the theory of
differential equations •
Lev Schnirelmann, developed the
Lusternik–Schnirelmann category in topology and
Schnirelmann density of numbers •
Igor Shafarevich, introduced the
Shafarevich–Weil theorem, proved the
Golod–Shafarevich theorem and
Shafarevich's theorem on solvable Galois groups, important
dissident during the
Soviet regime, wrote books and articles that criticised
socialism •
Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of
combinatory logic •
Sara Shakulova, first female mathematician of
Tatar descent •
Yakov Sinai, developed the
Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy and
Sinai billiard, Wolf Prize winner •
Eugen Slutsky, statistician and economist, developed the
Slutsky equation and
Slutsky's theorem •
Stanislav Smirnov, prominent researcher of
triangular lattice, Fields Medalist •
Sergei Sobolev, introduced the
Sobolev spaces and
mathematical distributions, co-developer of the first
ternary computer Setun •
Vladimir Steklov, mathematician and physicist, founder of
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, proved theorems on
generalized Fourier series •
Bella Subbotovskaya, specialist in
Boolean functions, founder of unauthorized Jewish People's University to educate Jews barred from quality universities
T •
Jakow Trachtenberg, developed the
Trachtenberg system of
mental calculation •
Boris Trakhtenbrot, proved the
Gap theorem, developed
Trakhtenbrot's theorem •
Valentin Turchin, inventor of
Refal programming language, introduced
metasystem transition and
supercompilation •
Andrey Tikhonov, author of
Tikhonov space and
Tikhonov's theorem (central in
general topology), the
Tikhonov regularization of
ill-posed problems, invented
magnetotellurics U •
Pavel Urysohn, developed the topological
dimension theory and
metrization theorems,
Urysohn's Lemma and
Fréchet–Urysohn space in
topology V •
Vladimir Vapnik, developed the
Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of
statistical learning and co-invented the
support-vector machine method and support-vector clustering algorithms •
Nicolay Vasilyev, inventor of
non-Aristotelian logic, the forerunner of
paraconsistent and
multi-valued logics •
Ivan Vinogradov, developed
Vinogradov's theorem and
Pólya–Vinogradov inequality in
analytic number theory •
Vladimir Voevodsky, introduced a
homotopy theory for schemes and modern
motivic cohomology, Fields Medalist •
Georgy Voronoy, invented the
Voronoi diagram Y •
Dmitry Yegorov, author of
Egorov's Theorem in
mathematical analysis Z •
Efim Zelmanov, solved the
restricted Burnside problem;
Fields Medal winner ==See also==