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Aleksandr Korkin | |
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| Born | 3 March 1837 |
| Died | 1 September 1908 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | St Petersburg University |
| Known for | Partial Differential Equations |
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| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | St Petersburg University |
| Doctoral advisor | Pafnuty Chebyshev |
| Doctoral students | Yegor Zolotarev |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Коркин; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837 – 1 September [O.S. 19 August] 1908) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.[1] Among others, his students included Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev.
Some publications
[edit]- Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1872). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives quaternaires". Math. Ann. 5 (4): 581–583. doi:10.1007/BF01442912. S2CID 119606974.
- Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1873). "Sur les formes quadratiques". Math. Ann. 6 (3): 366–389. doi:10.1007/BF01442795. S2CID 120492026.
- Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1877). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives". Math. Ann. 11 (2): 242–292. doi:10.1007/BF01442667. S2CID 121803621.
References
[edit]- ^ Steffens, Karl-Georg (2007), The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein, Springer, p. 79, ISBN 9780817644758,
After Chebyshev, Alexsandr Nikolaevich Korkin (1837–1908) was the most important initiator of the formation of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
Sources
[edit]- . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
External links
[edit]- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Aleksandr Korkin", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Aleksandr Korkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Korkin's Biography Archived 2014-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, the St. Petersburg University Pages (in Russian, but with an image)
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