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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

1801 - 1862

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862), also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський), was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Ostrogradsky has received more than 73,990 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Mikhail Ostrogradsky is the 136th most popular mathematician (up from 176th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 131st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

Mikhail Ostrogradsky is most famous for his research on the structure of the brain and his discovery of the pyramidal tract.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 136 out of 1,004. Before him are Colin Maclaurin, Hermann of Reichenau, Lodovico Ferrari, Jacques Hadamard, Aloysius Lilius, and Sophus Lie. After him are Oliver Heaviside, Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, Harald Bohr, and Andrew Wiles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 10. Before him are Josip Jelačić, Frédéric Bastiat, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Joseph Plateau, and Johannes Peter Müller. After him are Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, John Henry Newman, Thomas Cole, Immanuel Nobel, Joseph Lanner, and Antoine Augustin Cournot. Among people deceased in 1862, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 7. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, Jean-Baptiste Biot, John Tyler, and Bahadur Shah Zafar. After him are James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, Karl Nesselrode, and Elizabeth Siddal.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 117 out of 1,365. Before him are Boris Shcherbina (1919), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Sofia Rotaru (1947), and Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902). After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Milla Jovovich (1975), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), and Dmitry Bortniansky (1751).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Mikhail Ostrogradsky ranks 2. Before him are Stanislaw Ulam (1909). After him are Vladimir Arnold (1937), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Richard von Mises (1883), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Israel Gelfand (1913), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880).

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