August Davidov

August Yulevich Davidov
Portrait of August Davidov, a bearded man
Born(1823-12-15)December 15, 1823
DiedDecember 22, 1885(1885-12-22) (aged 62)
Resting placeVvedenskoye Cemetery
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1845)
Known forPresident of the IMO and textbook author
AwardsDemidov Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsImperial Moscow University
Academic advisorsNikolai Brashman
Notable studentsNikolai Zhukovsky
Nikolai Bugaev

August Yulevich Davidov (Russian: Август Юльевич Давидов) (December 15, 1823 – December 22, 1885) was a Russian mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics which were repeatedly reprinted from the 1860s to the 1920s. He was president of the Moscow Mathematical Society from 1866 to 1885.