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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

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Also known as Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky

Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)

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Mikhail Ostrogradsky was a male person associated with the United States. He was born on September 12, 1801, or September 24, 1801, and died on December 20, 1861, or January 1, 1862.

His recorded works number five. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Born
( 1801-09-24 ) 24 September 1801, Pashennaya , Kobelyaksky Uyezd , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; now Kremenchuk Raion , Poltava Oblast , Ukraine
Died
1 January 1862 (1862-01-01) (aged 60), Poltava
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Alma mater
University of Kharkiv , University of Paris
Known for
Ostrogradsky instability , Divergence theorem
Fields
Mathematics

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Mikhail
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Pashenivka
Place of death
Poltava
Languages spoken
French
Doctoral advisor
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Doctoral student
Nikolai Brashman
Image
PGRS 2 069 Ostrogradski - crop.jpg
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date of death
1862-01-01
date of birth
1801-09-24
Commons category
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
name in native language
Михайло Васильович Остроградський
place of burial
Pashenivka
ethnic group
Ukrainians
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
birth name
Михайло Васильович Остроградський
lifestyle
spiritism
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Encyclopedic overview

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862), also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський), was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.

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