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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

Russian mathematician and physicist

Died when: 60 years 99 days (723 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Mikhail Ostrogradsky

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (transcribed also Ostrogradskiy, Ostrogradskii) (Russian: ?????´? ????´?????? ????????´?????, Ukrainian: ????´??? ????´?????? ????????´??????; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862) 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 the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.


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