Lev Pontryagin
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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.
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Lev Pontryagin | |
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Born | (1908-09-03)3 September 1908 |
Died | 3 May 1988(1988-05-03) (aged 79) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Soviet Union |
Known for | Pontryagin duality Pontryagin class Pontryagin cohomology operation Pontryagin's maximum principle Andronov–Pontryagin criterion |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Pavel Alexandrov |
Doctoral students | Dmitri Anosov Vladimir Boltyansky Revaz Gamkrelidze Mikhail Postnikov Mikhail Zelikin |
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