Mathematician:Lev Semenovich Pontryagin

Mathematician

Russian mathematician who made major discoveries, mainly in the field of geometric topology.

Nationality

Soviet Russian

History

• Born: 3 Sept 1908, Moscow, Russia
• Died: 3 May 1988

Theorems and Definitions

• Andronov-Pontryagin Criterion (with Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov)
• Pontryagin's Maximum Principle
• Pontryagin Class
• Pontryagin Duality
• Pontryagin Space
• Pontryagin Square
• Pontryagin-Kuratowski Theorem, independently of Kazimierz Kuratowski (also known as Kuratowski's Theorem)

Results named for Lev Semenovich Pontryagin can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Lev Semenovich Pontryagin can be found here.

Publications

• 1938: Topological Groups
• 1961: The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes
• 1998: Memoirs

Also known as

In Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Lev Semenovich Pontryagin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive