Boris Lukitsch Laptev

Boris Lukitsch Laptew ( Russian Борис Лукич Лаптев ; English transcription Boris Lukich Laptev; born April 23, 1905 in Kazan ; † January 15, 1989 ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with geometry and the history of mathematics .

Laptew received his doctorate in 1939 under Pyotr Alexejewitsch Schirokow (1895–1944) (geometry of Finsler spaces). He was a professor at Kazan University . In addition to differential geometry (especially spaces of line elements, Finsler spaces) and non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, he also dealt with the history of mathematics and in particular with his predecessor at the University of Kazan, the co-founder of non-Euclidean geometry Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky . For example, he wrote his biography for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and found out that his research was stimulated by lectures given by Gauß's student Johann Christian Martin Bartels in Kazan on the history of mathematics, which he gave after the history of mathematics in Montucla .

literature

V. I. Bliznikas, Alexander Norden , B. N. Shapukov, A. P. Shirokov: The scientific legacy of Boris Lukich Laptev (April 23, 1905– January 15, 1989) . In: Journal of Mathematical Sciences 55, 1991, ISSN 1072-3374 , pp. 2091-2100.
Laptev . In: Andrei Kolmogorow , Adolf Pawlowitsch Juschkewitsch , Boris Rosenfeld , Alexei Iwanowitsch Markuschewitsch (ed.): Mathematics of the 19th Century. Geometry, analytic function theory . Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5048-2 .
Shapukov Norden: Boris Lukich Laptev (on his 70th birthday) . In: Russian Mathematical Surveys 31, 1976, ISSN 0036-0279 , pp. 259-263.

Web links

Laptew at Mathnet.ru

Individual evidence

↑ life data according to [1]
^ Laptew Bartels and the shaping of the geometrical ideas of Lobachevsky (Russian), in Dedicated to the memory of Lobachevsky , Kazan 1992, pp. 35-40 (Russian)

personal data
SURNAME	Laptew, Boris Lukitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Laptev, Boris Lukič; Laptev, Boris Lukich (English transcription); Лаптев, Борис Лукич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian mathematician and mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kazan
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1989

[1] ta according to [1]

[2] Laptew Bartels and the shaping of the geometrical ideas of Lobachevsky (Russian), in Dedicated to the memory of Lobachevsky , Kazan 1992, pp. 35-40 (Russian)