Mathematician:Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov

Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров, sometimes rendered as Aleksandroff or Aleksandrov, was a Russian mathematician who made considerable contributions in the fields of set theory and topology.

The first to introduce the concept of a kernel of a homomorphism. Not to be confused with Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov.

Nationality
Soviet Russian

History

 * Born: 7 May 1896, Bogorodsk (also called Noginsk), Russia
 * Died: 16 Nov 1982, Moscow, USSR

Theorems and Definitions

 * Alexandroff Compactification
 * Alexandrov Topology