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Pavel Alexandrov

1896 - 1982

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Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Alexandrov is the 331st most popular mathematician (down from 290th in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 653rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 331 out of 1,004. Before him are Georg Alexander Pick, Emil Artin, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, René-Louis Baire, Eutocius of Ascalon, and Wilhelm Ackermann. After him are Eugenio Beltrami, Alfred Korzybski, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Gotthold Eisenstein, Julius Plücker, and Joseph Diez Gergonne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 86. Before him are Carlos P. Garcia, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, J. Carrol Naish, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Rudolf Schmundt, and Wilhelm Ackermann. After him are Hinrich Lohse, Jorge Alessandri, Jimmy Doolittle, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Iona Yakir, and Morarji Desai. Among people deceased in 1982, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 87. Before him are Jack Swigert, King Vidor, Ville Ritola, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Wifredo Lam, and Jean Girault. After him are Isa Miranda, Marcel Camus, Gara Garayev, Henry King, Valerio Zurlini, and Savitri Devi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 642 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Boris Sheremetev (1652), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Alexander Grin (1880), and Ulugh Muhammad (1405). After him are Olga Rubtsova (1909), Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), Valery Bryusov (1873), Alexandre Benois (1870), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), and Alexander Sokurov (1951).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Pavel Alexandrov ranks 18. Before him are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Yakov Sinai (1935), Sergei Novikov (1938), and Grigory Margulis (1946). After him are Lev Pontryagin (1908), Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), and Nina Bari (1901).

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