Lev Pontryagin
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Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
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Lev Pontryagin was a male author from the Soviet Union. He was born on September 3, 1908, and died on May 3, 1988. His Erdős number is 3.
Pontryagin is associated with the work "Generalization of Numbers." Records indicate he has five works listed in Crossref and one work in Open Library. He is referenced by 197 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Generalization of Numbers
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Active from
- 1902
- Active to
- 1978
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Thought and language.
· 1962 · cited 6,792x
- Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
· 1997 · cited 6,229x
- A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?
· 2011 · cited 6,042x
- Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases
· 1999 · cited 4,928x
- Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation
· 2019 · cited 3,882x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1908-09-03 ) 3 September 1908, Moscow , Russian Empire
- Died
- 3 May 1988 (1988-05-03) (aged 79), Moscow, Soviet Union
- Known for
- Pontryagin duality , Pontryagin class , Pontryagin cohomology operation , Pontryagin's maximum principle , Andronov–Pontryagin criterion
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Doctoral advisor
- Pavel Alexandrov
- Doctoral students
- Dmitri Anosov , Vladimir Boltyansky , Revaz Gamkrelidze , Mikhail Postnikov , Mikhail Zelikin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Pavel Aleksandrov
- Doctoral student
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
- Field of work
- mathematical optimization
- Image
- Понтрягин Лев Семёнович.jpg
- Significant event
- misadventure
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- name in native language
- Лев Семёнович Понтрягин
- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1908-01-01
- date of death
- 1988-01-01
- medical condition
- blindness
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Erdős number
- 3
- birth name
- Лев Семёнович Понтрягин
- Commons category
- Lev Pontrjagin
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.
Early life and career
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