Alexander Petrovich North
Alexander Petrovich North , Russian Александр Петрович Норден (born July 24, 1904 in Saratov , † 1993 ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with geometry.
Life
Norden counted the "Mohr" of Peter the Great Abraham Petrowitsch Hannibal to his ancestors (whose daughter married the Swedish baron August Nordén). Coming from a family with large land holdings in Saratov, he had to work in a factory before he could study. He did his doctorate with Weniamin Kagan and was then a lecturer at Moscow University. In 1945, after his death, he succeeded Pyotr Alexejewitsch Schirokow (1895-1944) as professor of geometry in Kazan , where he formed an influential Russian school of geometry.
Norden applied tensor methods in projective and conformal differential geometry. He wrote several textbooks and also researched the life of Nikolai Lobachevsky .
In 1992 he received the Lobachevsky Medal for his development of the normalization method named after him for the theory of surfaces in projective spaces and its application to non-Euclidean geometries, as well as for popularizing Lobachevsky's ideas.
Fonts
- Elementary introduction to Lobachevskian geometry (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 35). German Science Publishers, Berlin 1958.
- Spaces with an affine connection. 2nd Edition. Nauka 1976 (Russian).
literature
- Zmilka Zdravkovska, Peter Duren (editor): Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics , 2nd ed. American Mathematical Society, Providence 2007. ISBN 978-0-8218-4261-4 (article BA Rosenfeld, pp. 85 f.)
Web links
- Александр Петрович Норден - biography at the Kazan State University (Russian)
Remarks
- ↑ His successor was again the son of Shirokov, Alexander Petrovich Shirokov (* 1926).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | North, Alexander Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Норден, Александр Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |