Pyotr Ivanovich Kotelnikov

Pyotr Ivanovich Kotelnikow ( Russian Пётр Иванович Котельников ; * 1809 in Sudscha ; † 28 May ^July / 9 June  1879 ^greg. In Kazan ) was a Russian mathematician and university professor .

Life

Kotelnikov was the son of an impoverished aristocratic family . He was orphaned early and grew up with his uncle. He attended the district school and the Kursk high school . At the age of fourteen he began studying at the University of Kharkov , which he graduated in 1828 as a candidate for physical-mathematical sciences . Then he began postgraduate at the University of Tartu in Johann Christian Martin Bartels and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve , which he in 1833 with his dissertation Exponuntur formulas catering analyticae quibus perturbatio motus terrae giratorii determinatur as a doctor of philosophy completed. He was then sent to Berlin , where he studied with Jakob Steiner and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet for two years .

In 1835, after a trial lecture at the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Kotelnikov was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Kazan . He taught algebra and differential calculus there until his death. He was an assistant to Nikolai Lobachevsky , and it was said that he was the only colleague who recognized the importance of Lobachevski's work on non-Euclidean geometry during his lifetime. Several times he was dean of the faculty of physics and mathematics at the University of Kazan, of which he became an honorary member.

Kotelnikov's son was the mathematician Alexander Petrovich Kotelnikow . Kotelnikov's grandson was the information theorist Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Kotelnikow .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Котельников, Петр Иванович . In: Большая биографическая энциклопедия . ( academic.ru [accessed November 6, 2017]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} ГОД РОССИЙСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ В ЛИЦАХ ЗЕМЛЯКОВ: КОТЕЛЬНИКОВ ПЕТР ИВАНОВИЧ (accessed November 6, 2017).
3. ↑ О численном значении некоторых сумм . In: Учёные записки Каз. унив. 1848.
4. ↑ Преобразование дифференциального параметра (Сообщение на съезде естествоиспытателей в Казани, 1873)
5. ↑ Grigorian in the article Kotelnikov, Dictionary of Scientific Biography