Nikolai Alexandrovich Shanin
Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Shanin ( Russian Николай Александрович Шанин ; English transcription Nicolai Aleksandrovich Shanin; born May 26, 1919 in Pskow ; † September 17, 2011 ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with topology and mathematical logic.
Shanin studied in Leningrad and received his doctorate in 1942 at the Steklow Institute under Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrow (On the expansion of topological spaces). He was a professor at Leningrad University and at the Steklov Institute in Leningrad, where he founded a group for mathematical logic in 1961. Together with Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow, he was one of the founders of the Russian School for Constructive Mathematics .
Schanin was an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Shanin: Constructive real numbers and constructive function spaces, American Mathematical Society 1968
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Schanin in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Schanin, Nikolai Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shanin, Nicolai Aleksandrovich (English transcription); Шанин, Николай Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pskov |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 2011 |