Pavel Alexandrov | |
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| Born | Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov 7 May 1896 |
| Died | 16 November 1982 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Dmitri Egorov Nikolai Luzin |
| Doctoral students | Aleksandr 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.