Dmitry Grave

Dmitri Alexandrovich Grawe (Russian Дмитрий Александрович Граве, English transliteration Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave; * 25 Augustjul / September 6 1863greg in Kirillov in Vologda, .. † December 19, 1939 in Kiev ) was a Russian and Ukrainian mathematician who, among other things to dealt with algebra.

Life and research

Grawe studied from 1881 to 1885 at the University of St. Petersburg, among others at Pafnuti Lvovitch Chebyshev and Andrei Markov. In 1889 he was there his doctorate under Alexander Korkin ( candidate), with a thesis on the three-body problem in connection to Carl Gustav Jacobi, and was habilitated in 1897 with a thesis on map projections. From 1889 he taught at the University and then at the same time at the Technical University of St. Petersburg and was professor from 1897 in Kharkiv. From 1899 to 1939 he was a professor at the University of Kiev and from 1934 also director of the newly founded Mathematical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Grawe is considered the founder of the first school of Russian algebra. Among his students Mikhail Kravchuk, Boris Delone, Nikolai Tschebotarow, Otto Schmidt Yulievich, Naum Achiezer and Alexander Markovich Ostrowski. He worked example is with Galois theory and found new varieties of solvable quintic equations by radicals (which are not generally solvable by radicals, as already Niels Henrik Abel proved ). In addition, he was also involved in number theory and various areas of applied mathematics and theoretical physics. In particular, in the 1920s a study of more applied mathematics was politically desirable, so that the work of Grawes school came to a standstill to algebra.

He wrote, inter alia, Books on the theory of finite groups (1910) and algebraic Analysis ( 1932).

Grawe was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and since 1929 the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1919.