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Lev Pontryagin

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin 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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science · Soviet mathematician (1908–1988) · mathematician · university teacher · also Lev Pontryagin, Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Lev Pontrjagin, Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin, Pontryagin

Born 3 September 1908 · Died 3 May 1988 · Q451319

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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1975).
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Awarded USSR State Prize (1975).
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1988· 1 entry

May 3, 1988Documented record86% confidence

Died 1988-05-03.

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1975· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1975Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1975).

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Jun 15, 1975Documented record84% confidence

Awarded USSR State Prize (1975).

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1970· 1 entry

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Became vice president of the International Mathematical Union

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1969· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).

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1966· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1966Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1966).

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Lenin Prize (1962).

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1953· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1953Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).

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1945· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945).

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1942· 1 entry

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Introduced the cohomology operations now called Pontryagin squares

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1941· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1941Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Stalin Prize (1941).

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1940· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1940Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1940).

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1935· 1 entry

1935Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was able to compute the homology groups of the classical compact Lie groups, which he would later call his greatest achievement

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1934· 1 entry

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Joined the Steklov Institute in Moscow

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1930· 1 entry

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And several other young members of the Moscow Mathematical Society publicly denounced as counter-revolutionary the Society's head Dmitri Egorov, who openly supported the Russian Orthodox Church and had recently been a

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1929· 2 entries

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Obtained a position at Moscow State University

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Jan 1, 1929Documented record84% confidence

Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1925–1929).

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1925· 1 entry

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Entered Moscow State University, where he was strongly influenced by the lectures of Pavel Alexandrov who would become his doctoral thesis advisor

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1922· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1922Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: misadventure.

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1908· 1 entry

Sep 3, 1908Documented record86% confidence

Born 1908-09-03.

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