Abram Besicovitch | |
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| Born | Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch 24 January 1891 |
| Died | 2 November 1970 (aged 79) Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | Russian Empire and British |
| Alma mater | St Petersburg University |
| Known for | Hausdorff–Besicovitch dimension Kovner–Besicovitch measure Besicovitch covering theorem Besicovitch inequality Besicovitch functions Besicovitch set |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1930) De Morgan Medal (1950) Sylvester Medal (1952) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Markov[2] |
| Doctoral students | Joseph Gillis Patrick Moran Gholamhossein Mosaheb[2] |
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (or Besikovitch;[1] Russian: Абра́м Само́йлович Безико́вич; 23 January 1891 – 2 November 1970) was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov (now in Ukraine) to a Karaite Jewish family.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
- ^ a b Burkill, J. C. (1971). "Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch 1891-1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 1–16. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0001.
- ^ a b Abram Besicovitch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Besicovitch, A. S. (1926). "On generalized almost periodic functions". Proc. London Math. Soc. 25 (2): 495–512. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-25.1.495.
- ^ Tamarkin, J. D. (1935). "Besicovitch on Almost Periodic Functions". Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 41 (7): 461–462. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06112-9.
- ^ Besicovitch, A. S. (1963). "The Kakeya Problem". American Mathematical Monthly. 70 (7): 697–706. doi:10.2307/2312249. JSTOR 2312249. MR 0157266.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abram Besicovitch", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Besicovitch On Kakeyas Problem and a similar one, Math. Zeitschrift vol.27, 1928, 312
- ^ Besicovitch On linear sets of points of fractal dimension, Math. Annalen 1929, Teil 2 Archived 7 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine,