Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii, also Mlodzievskii (, Pre-Reform Russian: Млодзѣевскій; born , died January 18, 1923) was a Russian

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, a former president of the

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. He was working in differential and

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Biography

Mlodzeevskii was born in

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July 10, 1858. His father was a

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, a professor at

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; he died when Boleslav was seven. After finishing Moscow gymnasium with a

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, he studied at

, where he received a Ph.D. degree in

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in 1886, in differential geometry. In his dissertation he studied the problem of deformation of surfaces; his advisor was Vasily Zinger. After two years of studies and work in

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and

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, he return to Moscow to assume a professorship at Moscow University. With a short gap 1911-1917 when he was forced to leave, he continued working at the university until his death. He died from

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complications in 1923 in Moscow.

Literary references

In an

Andrei Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (, ; – 8 January 1934), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely, was a Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner. Hi ...

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al novel ''Moscow Under Siege'', a mathematician named Boleslav Kornielich Mlodzievskii makes an appearance at a meeting of the Moscow Mathematical Society.

References

* A.N. Kolmogorov and

A.P. Yushkevich Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (; 15 July 1906 – 17 July 1993) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. He is a winner of George Sarton Medal by the History of ...

(eds.) ''Mathematics of the 19th century: geometry, analytic function theory'', p. 24., Birkhaüser, Basel, Switzerland, 1996.
Boleslav Mlodzeevskii (in memoriam)
by

Dmitri Egorov Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov (; December 22, 1869 – September 10, 1931) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. He was President of the Moscow Mathematical Soc ...

, Mat. Sb. 25 (1925), 449–452 (in

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,
Moscow Under Siege
', 1926 (in

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