Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russia

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n mathematician

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 of Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow

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, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev

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He was born in Neu-Raußnitz (today Rousínov in Czech Republic

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, then in Austrian Empire

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) and studied at the University of Vienna

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 and Vienna Polytechnic Institute

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. In 1824 he moved to St Petersburg

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 and then accepted a position at the Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University

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. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society

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 and its journal.

For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize

Demidov Prize

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 by the Russian Academy of Sciences

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. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow

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 in 1866.

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