Pafnuty chebyshev biography
Pafnuty chebyshev biography
Pafnuty chebyshev biography husband.
Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich
(b. Okatovo, Kaluga region, Russia, 16 May ; d. St. Petersburg, Russia, 8 December ),
mathematics.
Chebyshev’s family belonged to the gentry.
Pafnuty chebyshev biography wikipedia
He was born on a small estate of his parents, Lev Pavlovich Chebyshev, a retired army officer who had participated in the war against Napoleon, and Agrafena Ivanovna Pozniakova Chebysheva. There were nine children, of whom, besides Pafnuty, his younger brother, Vladimir Lvovich, a general and professor at the Petersburg Artillery Academy, was also well known.
Vladimir paid part of the cost of publishing the first collection of Pafnuty’s works (l, la).
In the Chebyshevs moved to Moscow, where Pafnuty completed his secondary education at home. He was taught mathematics by P.
N. Pogorelski, one of the best tutors in Moscow and author of popular textbooks in elementary mathematics.
In Chebyshev enrolled in the department of physics and mathematics (then the second section of the department of philosophy) of M