Mathematician:Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Mathematician
Ukrainian mathematician who worked mainly on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis.

Nationality
Ukrainian

History

 * Born: 23 January 1891 in Berdyansk, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
 * 1924: Went to Copenhagen
 * 1926: Moved to Cambridge
 * Died: 2 November 1970 in Cambridge, UK

Theorems and Conjectures

 * Besicovitch Covering Theorem


 * Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension (with ) (also known as Hausdorff Dimension)
 * Besicovitch Function


 * Kovner-Besicovitch Measure (with )

Publications

 * 1932: Almost Periodic Functions
 * 1932: Almost Periodic Functions
 * 1932: Almost Periodic Functions

Notable Quotes

 * A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
 * -- Quoted by in A Mathematician's Miscellany, 1963

Also known as
Full name in Russian: Абра́м Само́йлович Безико́вич.

His surname can also be seen transliterated as Besikovitch.

Known informally in Cambridge as Bessy.