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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

1801 - 1862

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862), also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський), was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Ostrogradsky is the 143rd most popular mathematician (down from 136th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

Mikhail Ostrogradsky is most famous for his research on the structure of the brain and his discovery of the pyramidal tract.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 143 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann Weyl, Hermann of Reichenau, Annie S. D. Maunder, Zu Chongzhi, Henri Lebesgue, and Ferdinand von Lindemann. After him are John G. Kemeny, Gabriel Lamé, George Pólya, Lars Ahlfors, Joseph Liouville, and John Tate.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 10. Before him are Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Josip Jelačić, John of Saxony, Johannes Peter Müller, Frédéric Bastiat, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. After him are Maria Theresa of Austria, John Henry Newman, Joseph Plateau, Joseph Lanner, George Biddell Airy, and Antoine Augustin Cournot. Among people deceased in 1862, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 7. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, John Tyler, and Jean-Baptiste Biot. After him are Fromental Halévy, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Božena Němcová, James Clark Ross, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Robert Knox.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 110 out of 1,365. Before him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Dmitry Bortniansky (1751). After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Roald Hoffmann (1937), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Lee Strasberg (1901), and Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 2. Before him are Stanislaw Ulam (1909). After him are Vladimir Arnold (1937), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Richard von Mises (1883), Israel Gelfand (1913), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), Vladimir Drinfeld (1954), and Igor Shafarevich (1923).

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