Aleksandr Korkin

Aleksandr Korkin
Born	(1837-03-03)March 3, 1837 N.S. Zhidovinovo, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 1, 1908(1908-09-01) (aged 71) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	St Petersburg University
Alma mater	St Petersburg University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Yegor Zolotarev
Known for	Partial Differential Equations

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Коркин; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837–September 1, 1908, all New Style) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.^[1]

Some publications

Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1872). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives quaternaires". Math. Ann. 5 (4): 581—583.

Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1873). "Sur les formes quadratiques". Math. Ann. 6 (3): 366—389.

Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1877). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives". Math. Ann. 11 (2): 242—292.

References

^ Steffens, Karl-Georg (2007), The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein, Springer, p. 79,

External links

Aleksandr Korkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Korkin's Biography, the St. Petersburg University Pages (in Russian, but with an image)

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Aleksandr Korkin