Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (russian: Александр Николаевич Коркин; – ) was a Russian
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. He made contribution to the development of
partial differential equations
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...
, and was second only to
Chebyshev
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev ( rus, Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв, p=pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof) ( – ) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
Chebyshe ...
among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
Among others, his students included
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotarev (russian: Его́р Ива́нович Золотарёв) (31 March 1847, Saint Petersburg – 19 July 1878, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician.
Biography
Yegor was born as a son of Agafya Izoto ...
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Some publications
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References
External links
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Korkin's Biography the St. Petersburg University Pages (in Russian, but with an image)
1837 births
1908 deaths
People from Vologda Oblast
People from Vologda Governorate
19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire
Mathematical analysts
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