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Oct. 29 | Natalia V. Kovalevskaya: Exploring Ancient Russia

Source: Center for Russian Studies | Date: 2012/10/26

Speaker: Natalia V. Kovalevskaya (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)

Date: 29 October 2012

Time: 18:30

Venue: Room 604, Research Center (Building 6), Hongkou Campus

Language: Russian, English

Event type: Public Lecture

Speaker Biography: Dr. Natalia V. Kovalevskaya is a senior lecturer and Chair of World Politics at School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University. Her academic interests include: Linguistic Dimension of International Relations, Spanish language as political factor in the world and Hispanophobia.

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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev

Quick Info

Born

16 May 1821
Okatovo, Kaluga Region, Russia

Died

8 December 1894
St Petersburg, Russia

Summary

Pafnuty Chebyshev is largely remembered for his investigations in number theory. Chebyshev was also interested in mechanics and is famous for the orthogonal polynomials he invented.

Biography

Pafnuty Chebyshev's parents were Agrafena Ivanova Pozniakova and Lev Pavlovich Chebyshev. Pafnuty was born in Okatovo, a small town in western Russia, south-west of Moscow. At the time of his birth his father had retired from the army, but earlier in his military career Lev Pavlovich had fought as an officer against Napoleon's invading armies. Pafnuty Lvovich was born on the small family estate into a upper class family with an impressive history. Lev Pavlovich and Agrafena Ivanova had nine children some of whom followed in their father's military tradition.

Let us say a little about life in Russia at the time Pafnuty Lvovich was growing up. There was a great deal of national pride in the country following the Russian defeat

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Organizing committee of Beijing-Moscow Mathematics Colloquium

(1) Huijun Fan (SMS PKU, symplectic geometry and mathematical physics, geometric analysis)

(2) Sergey Gorchinskiy (MI RAS, algebra and geometry: algebraic geometry, K-theory)

(3) Hailiang Li (SMS CNU, fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, analysis)

(4) Jinsong Liu (AMSS, algebraic geometry: singularity theory)

(5) Yi Liu (BICMR, Topology of 3-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry)

(6) Denis Osipov (MI RAS, algebraic geometry, number theory, integrable system)

(7) Ye Tian (UCAS, AMSS, Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, Iwasawa Theory)

(8) Alexey Tuzhilin (MSU, geometry: Riemannian and metric geometry)

(9) Yue Yang (CE PKU, computation mathematics and mechanics)

(10) Ping Zhang (AMSS, P. D. E.: fluid equation and semi-classical analysis)

(11) Alexander Zheglov (MSU, geometry: algebraic geometry, integrable system)

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