Lev Pontryagin
Soviet mathematician
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control. Wikipedia
Born: September 3, 1908, Moscow, Russia
Died: May 3, 1988 (age 79Â years), Moscow, Russia
Doctoral students: Dmitri Anosov; Vladimir Boltyansky; Revaz Gamkrelidze; Mikhail Postnikov; Mikhail Zelikin
Fields: Mathematics