Lev Pontryagin

Also known as Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Lev Pontrjagin, Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin

Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)

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Generalization of Numbers

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Soviet Union
Active from: 1902
Active to: 1978

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Thought and language.
· 1962 · cited 6,792x
Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
· 1997 · cited 6,229x
A ceRNA Hypothesis: The Rosetta Stone of a Hidden RNA Language?
· 2011 · cited 6,042x
Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases
· 1999 · cited 4,928x
Metabolic regulation of gene expression by histone lactylation
· 2019 · cited 3,882x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1908-09-03 ) 3 September 1908, Moscow , Russian Empire
Died: 3 May 1988 (1988-05-03) (aged 79), Moscow, Soviet Union
Known for: Pontryagin duality , Pontryagin class , Pontryagin cohomology operation , Pontryagin's maximum principle , Andronov–Pontryagin criterion
Fields: Mathematics
Doctoral advisor: Pavel Alexandrov
Doctoral students: Dmitri Anosov , Vladimir Boltyansky , Revaz Gamkrelidze , Mikhail Postnikov , Mikhail Zelikin

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Encyclopedic overview

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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