Nikolai Brashman

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Nikolai Brashman
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman
Born (1796-06-14)June 14, 1796
Neu-Raußnitz, Austrian Empire
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Moscow, Russian Empire
Nationality Austrian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Kazan University
St Petersburg University
Alma mater University of Vienna
Vienna Polytechnic Institute
Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor Joseph von Littrow
Other academic advisors Nikolai Lobachevsky
Doctoral students Pafnuty Chebyshev
Osip Somov
Known for Contributions to mechanics and analytical geometry
Notable awards Demidov Prize (1836)

Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (Russian: Николáй Дми́триевич Брáшман; German: Nikolaus Braschmann; June 14 New Style, 1796 – May 13 Old Style, 1866) was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin.[1] He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev and August Davidov.[2]

He was born in Neu-Raußnitz (today Rousínov in Czech Republic, then in Austrian Empire) and studied at the University of Vienna and Vienna Polytechnic Institute. In 1824 he moved to St Petersburg and then accepted a position at the Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society and its journal Matematicheskii Sbornik.[3]

For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow in 1866.

References

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  2. Nikolai Brashman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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