Kotelnikov

Aleksandr Petrovich Kotelnikov

Born: 20 Oct 1865 in Kazan, Russia
Died: 6 March 1944 in Moscow, USSR

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Kotelnikov was educated at Kazan and obtained a doctorate in 1899 for a thesis The Projective Theory of Vectors which generalised the vector calculus to the non-euclidean spaces of Lobachevsky and Riemann. He also applied this to mechanics in non-euclidean spaces. Much of his career is spent working on physics and non-euclidean geometry.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. B A Rosenfeld, Aleksandr Petrovich Kotelnikov, Istoriko-matematicheskia issledovania IX (Moscow, 1956). 
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