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Lev Pontryagin

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Also known as Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Lev Pontrjagin, Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin

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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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
Discogs

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Thought and language.

    · 1962 · cited 6,792x

  2. Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

    · 1997 · cited 6,229x

  3. A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?

    · 2011 · cited 6,042x

  4. Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases

    · 1999 · cited 4,928x

  5. 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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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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