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Aleksei Pogorelov | |
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Алексей Васильевич Погорелов | |
| Born | 3 March 1919 |
| Died | 17 December 2002 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv University |
| Known for | Pogorelov's uniqueness theorem Pogolerov's theorem Alexandrov–Pogorelov theorem |
| Awards | Stalin Prize (1950) Lobachevsky Prize (1959) Lenin Prize (1962) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Kharkiv University Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering Steklov Institute of Mathematics |
| Academic advisors | Nikolai Yefimov Aleksandr Aleksandrov |
Aleksei Vasilyevich Pogorelov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Алексе́й Васи́льевич Погоре́лов, Ukrainian: Олексі́й Васи́льович Погорє́лов; 3 March 1919 – 17 December 2002), was a Soviet mathematician. Specialist in the field of convex[1][2][3] and differential geometry, geometric PDEs and elastic shells theory, the author of novel school textbooks on geometry and university textbooks on analytical geometry, on differential geometry, and on the foundations of geometry.
Pogorelov's uniqueness theorem and the Alexandrov–Pogorelov theorem are named after him.
- ^ Kolmogorov, Andrei N.; Yushkevich, Adolf-Andrei P. (2012-12-06). Mathematics of the 19th Century: Geometry, Analytic Function Theory. Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-0348-9173-8.
- ^ Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Danilovich; Kolmogorov, Andre Nikolaevich; Lavrent'ev, M. A. (1999-01-01). Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-40916-0.
- ^ Alexandrov, A. D. (2005-12-08). Convex Polyhedra. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-540-26340-1.