Peterson

Karl Mikhailovich Peterson

Born: 25 May 1828 in Riga, Russia (now Latvia)
Died: 19 April 1881 in Moscow, Russia

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Peterson worked in Moscow as a teacher of mathematics. His main work is in differential geometry and he obtained an honorary doctorate for work on partial differential equations.

Largely because he was not at a university his results were not well known but they did influence Egorov in Moscow and Peterson gained an international reputation only when Darboux and Bianchi used his results. A class of surfaces is named after him.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. P Stäckel, Karl Peterson, Bibliotheca mathematica 2 (1901), 122-132.
  3. A P Youschkevitch, History of Mathematics in Russia Until 1917 (Moscow, 1968). 
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