Mikhail Ostrogradsky
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (transcribed also Ostrogradskiy, Ostrogradskiĭ) (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский, Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862) was a Russian[1][2] mathematician, mechanician and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry.[3][4][5][6][7][8] 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.
Ukrainian–Russian mathematician
Mikhail Ostrogradsky | |
|---|---|
 Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky | |
| Born | (1801-09-24)24 September 1801 |
| Died | 1 January 1862(1862-01-01) (aged 60) |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | University of Kharkiv, University of Paris |
| Known for | Ostrogradsky instability, Divergence theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |