Nikolai Bugaev

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Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Буга́ев; September 14, 1837 – June 11, 1903) was a Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely.

Early life and education

Bugaev was born in

After his doctoral degree, Bugaev returned to Moscow and taught there for the remainder of his career. Some of his most influential papers offered proofs of previously unproven assertions of Liouville, but his most original work centered around the development of formal analogies between arithmetic and analytic operations.

Bugaev was an active member and president (1891-1903) of the

Bugaev was a talented chess player. He defeated William Steinitz in 1896 in a Simul.

Bugaev was a memorable "character" whose life was touched by scandal. He was not, it is said, much admired for his looks, but his wife was considered brilliant, beautiful, and rich, and the Bugaevs were socially prominent. Their mathematically, musically, and artistically talented son, Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (14 October 1880 O.S.-8 January 1934), went on to adopt the pseudonym

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• Bugaev's chess games