Pavel Alexandrov

Pavel Alexandrov
Born
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov

(1896-05-07)7 May 1896
Died16 November 1982(1982-11-16) (aged 86)
NationalitySoviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorDmitri Egorov
Nikolai Luzin
Doctoral studentsAleksandr Kurosh
Lev Pontryagin
Yu. M. Smirnov
Petru Soltan
Andrey Tikhonov
Lev Tumarkin

Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.