Alexander Buchstab
Alexander Buchstab | |
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| Born | October 4, 1905 |
| Died | February 27, 1990 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Buchstab function |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow State Pedagogical Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Aleksandr Khinchin |
| Doctoral students | Gregory Freiman Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro |
Aleksandr Adol'fovich Buchstab (October 4, 1905 – February 27, 1990; Russian: Александр Адольфович Бухштаб, variously transliterated as Bukhstab, Buhštab, or Bukhshtab) was a Soviet mathematician who worked in number theory and was "known for his work in sieve methods". He is the namesake of the Buchstab function, which he wrote about in 1937.