Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Mikhail Ostrogradsky | |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky | |
| Born | 24 September 1801 |
| Died | 1 January 1862 (aged 60) |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | University of Kharkiv, University of Paris |
| Known for | Ostrogradsky instability, Divergence theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
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 Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.