Nikolai Luzin
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin (also spelled Lusin; Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈluzʲɪn] ⓘ; 9 December 1883 – 28 February 1950) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow mathematicians of the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematics.
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Nikolai Luzin | |
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Born | (1883-12-09)9 December 1883 |
Died | 28 February 1950(1950-02-28) (aged 66) |
Nationality | Russian |
Citizenship | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Contributions to descriptive set theory, mathematical analysis, point-set topology; Luzin's theorem, Lusin spaces, Luzin sets; |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions | Moscow State University Steklov Mathematical Institute Polytechnical Institute Ivanovo-Voznesensk |
Thesis | The Integral and Trigonometric Series (1915) |
Doctoral advisor | Dmitri Egorov |
Doctoral students | Pavel Alexandrov Nina Bari Aleksandr Khinchin Andrey Kolmogorov Alexander Kronrod Mikhail Lavrentyev Alexey Lyapunov Lazar Lyusternik Pyotr Novikov Lev Schnirelmann Pavel Urysohn |
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