“Any marriage would have been a mistake for me.”
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Pavel Aleksandrov
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff, was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.
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science · Soviet mathematician (1896–1982) · mathematician · university teacher · also Pavel Aleksandrov, Pavel Alexandrov, Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov, Pavel S. Aleksandrov, Aleksandrov Pavel Sergeevich, Alexandroff, Paul
Born 25 April 1896 · Died 16 November 1982 · Q325696
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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1983· 1 entry
“Emmy Noether: Historical Contexts”
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1982· 1 entry
Died 1982-11-16.
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
This friendship [with Kolmogorov] celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and over the whole of this half century there was not only never any breach in it, there was also never any quarrel, in all this time there was never
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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“On the Sources of My Book Modern Algebra”
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1972).
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1969· 3 entries
Won Cothenius Medal (1969).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1969).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
The continuum hypothesis was proven to be independent from ZFC
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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1955· 1 entry
Signed the "Letter of Three Hundred" with criticism of Lysenkoism
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
And in 1948 Arthur Harold Stone showed that the requirement of separability can be abandoned)
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1942).
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Awarded Stalin Prize (1942).
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1940).
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1936· 1 entry
Alexandrov was an active participant in the political offensive against his former mentor Luzin that is known as the Luzin affair
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1932· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1932–1964).
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1927· 2 entries
Generalized Alexander's theorem to the case of an arbitrary closed set
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Continued to work at Moscow State University and also joined the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
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1924· 1 entry
Alexandrov proved that in every open cover of a separable metric space, a locally finite open cover can be inscribed (this very concept, one of the key concepts in general topology, was first introduced by Alexandrov
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1921· 3 entries
“Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen”
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Married Ekaterina Romanovna Eiges, who was a poet and memoirist, library worker and mathematician
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Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1913–1921).
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1917· 1 entry
This problem was too much for Alexandrov and he had a creative crisis at the end of 1917.
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1913· 1 entry
Studied at Smolensk gymnasium (1913).
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-04-25.
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1890· 1 entry
“Über die Theorie der algebraischen Formen”
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