Nikolai Brashman
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 Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman |
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| Born | June 14, 1796 Rassnova (near Brno), Czech Republic |
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| Died | May 13, 1866 Moscow, Russia |
| Residence |  Russia |
| Nationality |  Czech |
| Field | Mathematician |
| Institution | Kazan University St Petersburg University |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna Vienna Polytechnic Institute Moscow State University |
| Academic advisor | Joseph von Littrow |
| Notable students | Pafnuty Chebyshev Osip Somov |
| Known for | Mechanics and analytical geometry |
| Notable prizes | Demidov Prize (1836) |
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (June 14, 1796 – May 13, 1866) was a mathematician of Czech birth who practised mostly in Russia. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev.
He was born in Rassnova (near Brno), Czech Republic and studied at the University of Vienna and Vienna Polytechnic Institute. In 1824 he moved to St Petersburg and then accepted a position at the Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society and its journal.
For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow in 1866.
[edit] External link
- O'Connor, John J..; Edmund F. Robertson "Nikolai Brashman". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Nikolai Brashman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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