Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Mathematician
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky was a Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of... Wikipedia
Born: September 24, 1801, Pashenivka, Ukraine
Died: January 1, 1862 (age 60 years), Poltava, Ukraine
Notable students: Dmitrii Ivanovich Zhuravskii, Nikolai Pavlovich Petrov, Daniel Delaru, and more
Academic advisors: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace, and Siméon Denis Poisson