Aleksandr Korkin

Aleksandr Korkin
Born	March 3, 1837 Zhidovinovo, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 1, 1908 (aged 71) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	St Petersburg University
Alma mater	St Petersburg University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Yegor Zolotarev
Known for	Partial Differential Equations

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Коркин; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837 – 1 September [O.S. 19 August] 1908) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.^[1]

Some publications

• Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1872). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives quaternaires". Math. Ann. 5 (4): 581—583. doi:10.1007/BF01442912.
• Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1873). "Sur les formes quadratiques". Math. Ann. 6 (3): 366—389. doi:10.1007/BF01442795.
• Korkine A., Zolotareff G. (1877). "Sur les formes quadratiques positives". Math. Ann. 11 (2): 242—292. doi:10.1007/BF01442667.

References

1. Steffens, Karl-Georg (2007), The History of Approximation Theory: From Euler to Bernstein, Springer, p. 79, ISBN 9780817644758, After Chebyshev, Alexsandr Nikolaevich Korkin (1837–1908) was the most important initiator of the formation of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Aleksandr Korkin", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Aleksandr Korkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Korkin's Biography, the St. Petersburg University Pages (in Russian, but with an image)