Mathematician:Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Mathematician
Ukrainian mathematician best known for his contribution to the Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality.
Nationality
Ukrainian
History
- Born: December 16 1804 in Bar, Podolskaya gubernia (now Vinnitsa oblast), Ukraine
- Died: December 12 1889 in St Petersburg, Russia
Theorems and Conjectures
- Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality (with Augustin Louis Cauchy and Hermann Amandus Schwarz) (also known as Bunyakovsky's Inequality or Buniakovski's Inequality)
- Bunyakovsky Conjecture
Results named for Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky can be found here.
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
Also known as
Full name in Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Буняковский.
Some sources render his surname as Buniakovski.
Sources
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Buniakovski's Inequality