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Veniamin Kagan | |
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| Born | Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan 9 March 1869 |
| Died | 8 May 1953 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Odessa State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Markov Konstantin Posse |
| Doctoral students | Viktor Wagner Isaak Yaglom |
Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan (Russian: Вениами́н Фёдорович Ка́ган; 10 March 1869 – 8 May 1953) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician and expert in geometry. He is the maternal grandfather of mathematicians Yakov Sinai and Grigory Barenblatt.