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Lev Pontryagin
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (left)
Born(1908-09-03)3 September 1908
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died3 May 1988(1988-05-03) (aged 79)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Union
Known forPontryagin duality
Pontryagin class
Pontryagin cohomology operation
Pontryagin's maximum principle
Andronov–Pontryagin criterion
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorPavel Alexandrov
Doctoral studentsDmitri Anosov
Vladimir Boltyansky
Revaz Gamkrelidze
Mikhail Postnikov
Mikhail Zelikin

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.

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Lev Pontryagin

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Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin, first name sometimes anglicized as Leon) (3 September...

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Pontryagin class

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mathematics, the Pontryagin classes, named after Lev Pontryagin, are certain characteristic classes of real vector bundles. The Pontryagin classes lie in...

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Pontryagin duality

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theorem is a special case of this theorem. The subject is named after Lev Pontryagin who laid down the foundations for the theory of locally compact abelian...

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Thom space

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mathematics, the Thom space, Thom complex, or Pontryagin–Thom construction (named after René Thom and Lev Pontryagin) of algebraic topology and differential...

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Optimal control

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deriving control policies. The method is largely due to the work of Lev Pontryagin and Richard Bellman in the 1950s, after contributions to calculus of...

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Pontryagin product

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In mathematics, the Pontryagin product, introduced by Lev Pontryagin (1939), is a product on the homology of a topological space induced by a product on...

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Alexander duality

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subsequently further developed, particularly by Pavel Alexandrov and Lev Pontryagin. It applies to the homology theory properties of the complement of a...

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Pavel Alexandrov

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death. Among the students of P. S. Alexandrov, the most famous are Lev Pontryagin, Andrey Tychonoff and Aleksandr Kurosh. The older generation of his...

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Structural stability

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Structurally stable systems were introduced by Aleksandr Andronov and Lev Pontryagin in 1937 under the name "systèmes grossiers", or rough systems. They...

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Algebraic topology

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Neisendorfer Emmy Noether Sergei Novikov Grigori Perelman Henri Poincaré Lev Pontryagin Nicolae Popescu Mikhail Postnikov Daniel Quillen Jean-Pierre Serre Isadore...

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Cohomology

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can be stated more simply in terms of cohomology. In 1934, Lev Pontryagin proved the Pontryagin duality theorem; a result on topological groups. This (in...

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Dmitri Anosov

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and a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1976). He was a student of Lev Pontryagin. In 2014, he died at the age of 77. Anosov diffeomorphism Anosov map...

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Mathematical optimization

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Kuhn László Lovász David Luenberger Arkadi Nemirovski Yurii Nesterov Lev Pontryagin R. Tyrrell Rockafellar Naum Z. Shor Albert Tucker Convex programming...

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MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics

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years: Andrey Tikhonov (1970–1993) Lev Pontryagin (1970–1988) Sergey Yablonsky (1970–1998) Oleg Lupanov (1970–1980) Lev Korolyov (1970–2016) Yuriy Prokhorov...

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Nikolai Luzin

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Luzin's former students Lazar Lyusternik and Lev Schnirelmann along with Alexander Gelfond and Lev Pontryagin claimed that “there appeared active counter-revolutionaries...

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List of blind people

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Physicist who went blind at forty-two when he gazed too long at the sun. Lev Pontryagin – Soviet mathematician who went blind at fourteen. He continued mathematical...

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Lev Schnirelmann

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on 24 September 1938, for reasons that are not clear. According to Lev Pontryagin's memoir from 1998, Schnirelmann gassed himself, due to depression brought...

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Cobordism

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between bordism and homology. Bordism was explicitly introduced by Lev Pontryagin in geometric work on manifolds. It came to prominence when René Thom...

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Emmy Noether

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abstract algebra and algebraic geometry. She worked with the topologists Lev Pontryagin and Nikolai Chebotaryov, who later praised her contributions to the...

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Control theory

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of Z-transform in control theory (invented by Laplace) in the 1950s. Lev Pontryagin introduced the maximum principle and the bang-bang principle. Pierre-Louis...

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Vladimir Boltyansky

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He graduated from Moscow University in 1948, where his advisor was Lev Pontryagin. He defended his "Doktor nauk in physics and mathematics" (higher doctorate)...

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Bernard Morin

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surface. Blind mathematicians: Leonhard Euler, Nicholas Saunderson, Lev Pontryagin, Louis Antoine, Zachary Battles "Décès de Bernard Morin". Société Mathématique...

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