Osip Ivanovich Somov (russian: Ио́сиф (О́сип) Ива́нович Со́мов; 13 June 1815, Moscow Governorate – 8 May 1876,

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* * 1815 births 1876 deaths Russian mathematicians 19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences {{russia-mathematician-stub