Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
Pafnuty Chebyshev c. 1890
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Chebyshev on a 2021 stamp of Russia
Nikolai Brashman
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
…and, in September of that year, began his mathematical studies at the second philosophical department of Moscow University. His teachers included N.D. Brashman, N.E. Zernov and D.M. Perevoshchikov of whom it seems clear that Brashman had the greatest influence on Chebyshev. Brashman instructed him in practical…
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman