List of Russian mathematicians

• Georg Cantor, inventor of set theory. Cantor was born into the Russian Empire, moving to Saxony with his family at age 11.
• Sergey Chaplygin, author of Chaplygin's equation important in aerodynamics and notion of Chaplygin gas
  .
• Nikolai Chebotaryov, author of Chebotarev's density theorem
• Pafnuti Chebyshev, prominent tutor and founding father of Russian mathematics, contributed to probability, statistics and number theory, author of the Chebyshev's inequality, Chebyshev distance, Chebyshev function, Chebyshev equation
  etc.
• Sergei Chernikov, significant contributor to both infinite group theory (developer of Chernikov groups), and linear programming.

D

• Soviet Student Olympiad
  in mathematics
• Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician and theoretical physicist, introduced quantum groups and ADHM construction, Fields Medal winner
• Eugene Dynkin, developed Dynkin diagram, Doob–Dynkin lemma and Dynkin system in algebra and probability

• Dmitri Egorov, known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis.
• Euler's number, Euler circles etc.) Although Swiss born Euler spent most of his life in St. Petersburg
  .

F

• Ivan Fesenko, number theorist
• New Chronology
• space groups
  of crystals

G

Gromov

• Boris Galerkin, developed the Galerkin method in numerical analysis
• Gelfand triple, integral geometry
  etc.
• Gelfond's theorem, provided means to obtain infinite number of transcendentals, including Gelfond–Schneider constant and Gelfond's constant, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
  winner
• Gerschgorin circle theorem
  fame
• differential equations
• Valery Goppa, inventor of Goppa codes, and algebraic geometry codes in the field of algebraic geometry
• Gromov norm, Gromov product
  etc., Wolf Prize winner

K

Kovalevskaya

• Nobel Prize in Economics
  winner
• Anatoly Karatsuba, developed the Karatsuba algorithm (the first fast multiplication algorithm)
• Fields medal
  recipient)
• Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming
• Khinchin inequality in probability theory
• toric varieties, Jeffery–Williams Prize
  winner
• Andrey Kolmogorov, preeminent 20th century mathematician, Wolf Prize winner; multiple contributions to mathematics include: probability axioms, Chapman–Kolmogorov equation and Kolmogorov extension theorem in probability; Kolmogorov complexity etc.
• Kontsevich integral and Kontsevich quantization formula
  , Fields Medal winner
• Aleksandr Korkin,
• sampling theorem
• Kovalevskaya top
• Kravchuk matrix
• Krein space
  , Wolf Prize winner
• Alexander Kronrod, developer of Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula and Kaissa
  , the first world computer chess champion
• Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov, first developed the method of Krylov subspace, still widely used numerical method for linear problems
• Nikolay Krylov, author of the edge-of-the-wedge theorem, Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem and describing function
• Aleksandr Kurosh, author of the Kurosh subgroup theorem and Kurosh problem in group theory

L

Lobachevsky

• Olga Ladyzhenskaya, made major contributions to solution of Hilbert's 19th problem and important Navier–Stokes equations
• Evgeny Landis, inventor of AVL tree
  algorithm
• Vladimir Levenshtein, developed the Levenshtein automaton, Levenshtein coding and Levenshtein distance
• Cook-Levin theorem
• Yuri Linnik, developed Linnik's theorem in analytic number theory
• Lobachevskian or hyperbolic geometry
  )
• Lazar Lyusternik, Mathematician, famous for work in topology and differential geometry. Codevelops Lyusternik-Schnirelmann theory with Lev Schnirelmann.
• Luzin sets in descriptive set theory
• Lyapunov's central limit theorem, Lyapunov equation, Lyapunov fractal, Lyapunov time
  etc.

M

• Leonty Magnitsky, a director of the Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation, author of the principal Russian 18th century textbook in mathematics
• Anatoly Maltsev, researched decidability of various algebraic groups, developed the Malcev algebra
• Manin-Mumford conjecture and Manin obstruction in diophantine geometry
• Lie groups, Wolf Prize and Fields Medal
  winner
• Markov processes, Markov random field, Markov algorithm
  etc.
• Andrey Markov, Jr., author of Markov's principle and Markov's rule
  in logics
• Matiyasevich's theorem in set theory, provided a negative solution for Hilbert's tenth problem
• Mikhail Menshikov
  , probabilist
• Informatics

N

• Mark Naimark, author of the Gelfand–Naimark theorem and Naimark's problem
• Burnside's problem
• Adams–Novikov spectral sequence and Novikov conjecture
  , Wolf Prize and Fields Medal winner

O

• infinite symmetric groups and Hilbert scheme
  researcher, Fields Medal winner
• partial fractions in integration

P

• Fields medal and the first Clay Millennium Prize Problems
  Award (declined both)
• Pontryagin's minimum principle in optimal control
• Yury Prokhorov, author of the Lévy–Prokhorov metric and Prokhorov's theorem in probability

R

• Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 and the Gödel Prize for contributions to computer sciences

S

• differential equations
• Lev Schnirelmann, developed the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category in topology and Schnirelmann density of numbers
• Soviet regime, wrote books and articles that criticised socialism
• Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinatory logic
• Sinai billiard
  , Wolf Prize winner
• Eugen Slutsky, statistician and economist, developed the Slutsky equation and Slutsky's theorem
• triangular lattice
  , Fields Medalist
• mathematical distributions, co-developer of the first ternary computer Setun
• Vladimir Steklov, mathematician and physicist, founder of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, proved theorems on generalized Fourier series
• Boolean functions
  , founder of unauthorized Jewish People's University to educate Jews barred from quality universities

T

• Jakow Trachtenberg, developed the Trachtenberg system of mental calculation
• Boris Trakhtenbrot, proved the Gap theorem, developed Trakhtenbrot's theorem
• supercompilation
• ill-posed problems, invented magnetotellurics

U

• Urysohn's Lemma and Fréchet–Urysohn space in topology

V

• multi-valued logics
• Pólya–Vinogradov inequality in analytic number theory
• Vladimir Voevodsky, introduced a homotopy theory for schemes and modern motivic cohomology, Fields Medalist
• Georgy Voronoy, invented the Voronoi diagram

Y

• Egorov's Theorem in mathematical analysis

Z

• restricted Burnside problem; Fields Medal
  winner

See also

• List of mathematicians
• List of Russian physicists
• List of Russian scientists
• Science and technology in Russia