Also known as Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Lev Pontrjagin, Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin
Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
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Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.
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