Samuil Ossipowitsch Schatunowski
Samuil Osipovich Schatunowski , Russian Самуил Осипович Шатуновский , English transcription Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky, (* 25. March 1859 in Welyka Znamianka ( Велика Знам'янка ) in Kamianka-Dniprovska , Taurida Gubernia , now Ukraine ; † 27. March 1929 in Odessa ) was a Ukrainian mathematician who, among other things, dealt with the axioms of algebra and geometry.
Life
Shatunovsky was the ninth child of a poor Jewish family and attended school in Kherson . He mainly studied engineering in Rostov and Saint Petersburg , but also mathematics with Pafnuti Chebyshev , but was unable to finish his studies for financial reasons. For the same reason, an attempt he made to obtain a degree in Switzerland failed. He then made his living in various smaller Russian cities as a private teacher, but also published on mathematics, whereupon he received financial support for a degree at the University of Odessa . In 1905 he was permanently employed at the university and in 1917 he became a professor.
Schatunowski was an early representative of constructive mathematics in the sense of the intuitionism founded in 1912 by LEJ Brouwer . He received his doctorate in 1917 from the University of Odessa (algebra as a comparative doctrine on functional modules). In his dissertation he tried to justify the algebra and especially the Galois theory with Cauchy modules without applying the theorem of the excluded third party to infinite sets, which he considered problematic.
His mathematics lectures in Odessa were also very popular beyond the mathematics students.
He also worked on the fundamentals of geometry at the same time (around 1897/98) as David Hilbert and independently developed an axiomatic theory of surface areas. He gave a volume definition for polyhedra as an invariant without using boundary processes.
In 1910 he and Weniamin Fjodorowitsch Kagan founded the publishing house for mathematics Matesis in Odessa, which published translations of foreign literature (such as Richard Dedekind's book Continuity and Irrational Numbers ) and works by Russian authors and also addressed a larger audience with popular science books.
Gregor Michailowitsch Fichtenholz and Sofia Janowskaja were among his doctoral students . Even Moses Schönfinkel and Arnold Ross were his pupils.
Fonts
- Introduction to Analysis , Odessa: Matesis 1923
literature
- Harry Dym , Israel Gohberg , Naftaly Kravitsky: Biography of MS Livsic , in: Gohberg, Livsic: Topics in operator theory and interpolation: essays dedicated to MS Livsic on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Operator Theory, Advances and Applications, 29, 1988 , 6-15 (reprinted in Harm Bart et al. Israel Gohberg and his friends: on the occasion of his 80th birthday). With a short biography of Shatunovsky.
- Christopher Hollings: Investigating a claim for Russian priority in the abstract definition of a ring, in: BSHM bulletin, 29 (2014), 2, pp. [111] - 119.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samuil Ossipowitsch Schatunowski in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schatunowski, Samuil Ossipowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шатуновский, Самуил Осипович (Russian); Знам'янка, Велика (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Welyka Snamjanka near Kamjanka-Dniprowska , Taurian Governorate , Russian Empire (now Ukraine ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1929 |
| Place of death | Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |