Martian crater Luzin was named in his honor
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Nikolai Luzin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow mathematicians of the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematic…
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science · Russian mathematician · mathematician · university teacher · also Nikolai Luzin, Nikolai Nikolayevich Luzin, Nikolai N. Luzin, Luzin, Nikolaj N., Lusin, Nicolas, Luzin, N.N.
Born 9 December 1883 · Died 28 January 1950 · Q374024
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-01-28.
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1931· 1 entry
Kolman brought the first complaint against Luzin
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1929· 1 entry
Was elected as a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Kraków
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1917· 1 entry
Career landmark: professor (1917).
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1908· 1 entry
Career landmark: Privatdozent (1908–1910).
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1906· 1 entry
Wrote to Pavel Florensky, a former fellow mathematics student who was now studying theology: You found me a mere child at the University, knowing nothing
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1905· 1 entry
Studied at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University (1901–1905).
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1901· 2 entries
Studied at boys' gymnasium in Tomsk (1895–1901).
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At Moscow State University, where his advisor was Dmitri Egorov
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1893· 1 entry
Studied at boys' gymnasium in Tomsk (1893–1893).
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-12-09.
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