Dmitry Fyodorovich Selivanov
Russian mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dmitry Fyodorovich Selivanov, was a Russian mathematician, known for his work on differential calculus and finite difference calculus. Biography The son of a district marshal and justice of the peace, Selivanov was born into a noble family in Penza Oblast, where he attended secondary school. He then studied mathematics and physics at the University of St. Petersburg, where he was taught by, among others, Pafnuty Chebyshev. In 1878 Selivanov graduated and in 1880–1881 studied in Paris under Charles Hermite and in Berlin under Karl Weierstraß and Leopold Kronecker. In Berlin he became friends with mathematicians like Kurt Hensel, Carl Runge, and Adolf Kneser and joined the Berlin Mathematical Society, whose meetings in a café were often attended by Sofia Kovalevskaya. In 1885 he completed in Saint Petersburg his Russian magister degree with dissertation entitled "Теория алгебраического решения уравнений" . In 1885 he also received his Russian candidate degree and became the Russian-equivalent of a Privatdozent at the University of St. Petersburg, remaining in that academic position for 20 years, because he did not want to change to a professorship at provincial universities. During those years he also lectured at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute from 1888 to 1900, and from 1889 at the Bestuzhev Women's University, where he met his wife , who was his student. In 1890 he received the Russian doctorate in Moscow with thesis "Об уравнениях пятой степени с целыми коэффициентами" . In 1905 he became a professor extraordinarius and in 1906 a professor ordinarius at the University of St. Petersburg. After the Russian Revolution, he was arrested and expelled in the fall of 1922 . He went to Prague, where, with the support of the Czech government, there was a Russian university of exile. In his last years he was impoverished.
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