Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.
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7 May 1896 Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
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Died |
16 November 1982 (aged 86) Moscow, Soviet Union
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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