MATHEMATICIAN

Ivan Petrovsky

1901 - 1973

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Ivan Georgiyevich Petrovsky (Russian: Ива́н Гео́ргиевич Петро́вский; 18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Petrovsky has received more than 70,261 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ivan Petrovsky is the 824th most popular mathematician (down from 796th in 2019), the 2,070th most popular biography from Russia and the 56th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 824 out of 1,004. Before him are James Waddell Alexander II, Boris Galerkin, Laurent Lafforgue, Nikolai Bugaev, Ludwig Schläfli, and Claire Voisin. After him are Heinz Prüfer, Stanislav Smirnov, Peter Tait, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Paul Montel, and Garrett Birkhoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 279. Before him are Jean Prévost, Aleksandr Andronov, Marieluise Fleißer, László Németh, Hanns Seidel, and Paolo Mazza. After him are James Dunn, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Paul Fix, Joseph De Combe, Åke Borg, and Mark Oliphant. Among people deceased in 1973, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 228. Before him are Jane Bowles, Oliver Macdonald, Roland Dorgelès, Mikhail Somov, Arthur Freed, and Memphis Minnie. After him are Ōten Shimokawa, Brigitte Reimann, Åke Borg, Vladimír Syrovátka, Sidney Blackmer, and Constance Talmadge.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 2,070 out of 3,761. Before him are Valeri Vasiliev (1949), Algis Budrys (1931), Dimitri Arakishvili (1873), Klavdiya Boyarskikh (1939), Andrei Panin (1962), and Aksel Berg (1893). After him are Anton Yelchin (1989), Sergei Grinkov (1967), Umyar Mavlikhanov (1937), Lev Kassil (1905), Tamara Bykova (1958), and Gregory Ratoff (1897).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Ivan Petrovsky ranks 56. Before him are Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Eugene Dynkin (1924), Marina Ratner (1938), and Vladimir Voevodsky (1966). After him are Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Sergey Nikolsky (1905), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (1847), and Anatoly Karatsuba (1937).

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