Nikolai Brashman
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| Other academic advisors | Nikolai Lobachevsky |
| Notable students | Pafnuty Chebyshev August Davidov Osip Somov |
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (
He was born in Neu-Raußnitz (today
Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society and its journal Matematicheskii Sbornik.[3]
For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow in 1866.
References
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nikolai Brashman", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Nikolai Brashman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ISBN 9780817644758.
Bibliography
- Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). 2010. pp. 94–95. )
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