MATHEMATICIAN

Ivan Petrovsky

1901 - 1973

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Ivan Georgiyevich Petrovsky (Russian: Ива́н Гео́ргиевич Петро́вский; 18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Petrovsky is the 813th most popular mathematician (up from 824th in 2019), the 1,988th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,071st in 2019) and the 55th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 813 out of 1,004. Before him are Morris Kline, Leonida Tonelli, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Pyotr Novikov, Eugenio Calabi, and Jacob Bronowski. After him are David Gregory, Horace Lamb, Nathan Jacobson, Edward O. Thorp, Mikhail Suslin, and William Feller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 281. Before him are Mildred Wiley, Sven Utterström, František Halas, Pyotr Novikov, Mildred Dunnock, and Al LeConey. After him are Bud Houser, Samuel Zauber, Karandash, László Németh, Louis Kuehn, and Victor Leemans. Among people deceased in 1973, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 225. Before him are Robert Armstrong, Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Alberto Denegri, Constance Talmadge, and Memphis Minnie. After him are Raymond Schwartz, Betty Field, Robert Buron, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Brigitte Reimann, and Hellmuth Kneser.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 1,988 out of 3,761. Before him are Maxim Vengerov (1974), Viatcheslav Ekimov (1966), Sergei Lemeshev (1902), Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938), Aleksandr Timoshinin (1948), and Boris Lagutin (1938). After him are Pavel Lungin (1949), Matvey Gusev (1826), Denis Menchov (1978), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Isaak Zelensky (1890), and Sergei Slonimsky (1932).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 55. Before him are Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitry Grave (1863), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), and Pyotr Novikov (1901). After him are Mikhail Suslin (1894), Anatoly Karatsuba (1937), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Marina Ratner (1938), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), and Dmitri Anosov (1936).

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