Pavel Alexandrov
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.
Pavel Alexandrov | |
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| Born | Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov 7 May 1896 |
| Died | 16 November 1982 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Dmitri Egorov Nikolai Luzin |
| Doctoral students | Aleksandr Kurosh Lev Pontryagin Yu. M. Smirnov Petru Soltan Andrey Tikhonov Lev Tumarkin |
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