August Davidov
| August Yulevich Davidov | |
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| Born |
December 15, 1823 Liepāja, Courland, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 22, 1885 (aged 62) Moscow |
| Resting place | Vvedenskoye Cemetery |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow University |
| Alma mater | Moscow University |
| Academic advisors | Nikolai Brashman |
| Notable students | Nikolai Zhukovsky, Nikolai Bugaev, Vasili Tsinger |
| Known for | President of the IMO and textbook author |
| Notable awards | Demidov Prize |
August Yulevich Davidov (Russian: Август Юльевич Давидов) (December 15, 1823 – December 22, 1885) was a Russian mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics which were repeatedly reprinted from the 1860s to the 1920s. He was president of the Moscow Mathematical Society from 1866 to 1885.
Davidov was born in Courland where his father was a physician and his younger brother Karl Davidov (1838–1889) became a noted cellist and composer and director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
In 1839 Davidov was sent to Moscow to attend the school that is now Bauman Moscow State Technical University. In 1841 Davidov enrolled in the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University, where he studied under Nikolai Brashman (1796–1866). In 1845 he won a gold medal from the university for his paper "On Infinitesimal Displacements". He was graduated that same year but continued his studies under Brashman. In 1848 he received the title of Master of Mathematics (and later the Demidov Prize from the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences) for his paper "The Theory of Equilibrium of Bodies Immersed in a Liquid".
Davidov worked briefly as a mathematics teacher in the Cadet Corps, then in 1850 he started as an Associate Lecturer on the theory of probability in the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University. In 1851 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Determination of the Surface of the Fluid Contained in a Vessel" and in same year published his paper "Theory of Capillary Phenomena".
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