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: Млодзѣевскій; born , died January 18, 1923) was a Russia

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n mathematician

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, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society

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. He was working in differential and algebraic geometry

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Biography

Mlodzeevskii was born in Moscow

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 July 10, 1858. His father was a doctor

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, professor at Moscow University; he died when Boleslav was seven. After finishing Moscow gymnasium

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 with gold medal

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, he studied at Moscow University, where he received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics

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 in 1886, in differential geometry. In his dissertation he studied the problem of deformation of surfaces; his advisor was Vasily Zinger

Vasily Jakovlevich Zinger

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. After two years of studies and work in Göttingen

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, Paris

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 and Zürich

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, he return to Moscow to assume a professorship at Moscow University. With a short gap 1911-1917 when he was forced to leave, he continued working at the university until his death.

He died from diabetes complications in 1923 in Moscow.

Literary references

In an Andrei Bely

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 fiction

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al novel Moscow Under Siege, a mathematician named Boleslav Kornielich Mlodzievskii makes an appearance at a meeting of the Moscow Mathematical Society.