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Mikhail Ostrogradsky
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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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Key facts
- 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
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Student of
- Ivan Kotliarevskyi
- 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
- civil rank
- State Councillor
- birth name
- Михайло Васильович Остроградський
- lifestyle
- spiritism
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
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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.
Life
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