Mikhail Ostrogradsky | |
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![]() Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky | |
Born | |
Died | 1 January 1862 | (aged 60)
Citizenship | Russian Empire |
Alma mater | University of Kharkiv, University of Paris |
Known for | Ostrogradsky instability, Divergence theorem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky[a] (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862), also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський), was a Russian Imperial[1][2] mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.
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