Died 1861-12-20.
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Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. 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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science · Ukrainian-Russian mathematician · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · also Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, Ostrogradsky
Born 12 September 1801 · Died 20 December 1861 · Q355892
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1834· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1834).
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1828· 1 entry
Returned to the Russian Empire and settled in Saint Petersburg, where he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences
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1826· 1 entry
Ostrogradsky gave the first general proof of the divergence theorem, which was discovered by Lagrange in 1762
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1823· 1 entry
Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, Doctor (1822–1823).
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1820· 2 entries
Ostrogradsky refused to be examined and he never received his Ph
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Studied at Imperial Kharkov University (1816–1820).
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1815· 1 entry
Studied at Poltava men's gymnasium (1809–1815).
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1801· 1 entry
Born 1801-09-12.
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