Valery Glivenko

Valery Glivenko
Glivenko circa 1916
Born(1896-12-21)December 21, 1896
Kyiv
Died(1940-02-15)February 15, 1940
Moscow
Alma materMoscow State University (1925)
Scientific career
Academic advisorsNikolai Luzin

Valery Ivanovich Glivenko (Russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Гливе́нко, Ukrainian: Валерій Іванович Гливенко; 2 January 1897 (Gregorian calendar) / 21 December 1896 (Julian calendar) in Kyiv – 15 February 1940 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician. He worked in the foundations of mathematics, real analysis, probability theory, and mathematical statistics. He taught at the Moscow Industrial Pedagogical Institute[1] until his death at age 43.[2][3] Most of Glivenko's work was published in French.

  1. ^ which was later merged with the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, now Moscow State Pedagogical University
  2. ^ Eckart Menzler-Trott, Logic's lost genius: the life of Gerhard Gentzen, tr. Craig A. Smoryński and Edward R Griffor, p. 95.
  3. ^ Kolmogoroff, A. (1941). "Obituary: Valerii Ivanovich Glivenko. (1897–1940)". Uspekhi Mat. Nauk (in Russian). 8: 379–383. MR 0004017.