Mathematician:Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky

Mathematician
Full name in Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Буняковский.

Best known for his contribution to the Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality.

Nationality
Ukrainian

History

 * Born: December 16 1804, Bar, Podolskaya gubernia (now Vinnitsa oblast), Ukraine
 * Died: December 12 1889, St Petersburg, Russia

Theorems and Conjectures

 * Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality (with and )
 * Bunyakovsky Conjecture

Publications

 * 1825: Rotary motion in a resistant medium of a set of plates of constant thickness and defined contour around an axis inclined with respect to the horizon
 * 1825: Determination of the radius-vector in elliptical motion of planets
 * 1825: Heat propagation in solids
 * 1846: Foundations of the mathematical theory of probability