Mikhail Ostrogradsky
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky
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| Born |
September 24, 1801 Pashenivka, (Ukraine, Russian Empire) |
| Died | January 1, 1862 (aged 60) Poltava |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater |
University of Kharkiv, University of Paris |
| Known for |
Ostrogradsky instability, Divergence theorem |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (transcribed also Ostrohradskyy, Ostrogradskii, Ostrogradskiĭ) (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Остроградский, Ukrainian: Михайло Васильович Остроградський, September 24, 1801 – January 1, 1862) was a Ukrainianmathematician, mechanician and physicist in the Russian Empire. Ostrogradsky is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler and one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.
Ostrogradsky was born on September 24, 1801 in the village of Pashenivka (at the time in the Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire, today in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine). From 1816 to 1820, he studied under Timofei Osipovsky (1765–1832) and graduated from the University of Kharkiv. When Osipovsky was suspended on religious grounds in 1820, Ostrogradsky refused to be examined and he never received his Ph.D. degree. From 1822 to 1826, he studied at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France in Paris, France. In 1828, he returned to the Russian Empire and settled in Saint Petersburg, where he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. He also became a professor of the Main military engineering School of the Russian Empire.
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