Adolph P. Yushkevich

Adolf- Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (sometimes Andrei is given as a first name ) (Russian Адольф Павлович Юшкевич, scientific transliteration Adol'f Pavlovich Juškevič, English transcription Adolf Yushkevich, * 2 Junijul / June 15 1906greg in Odessa, .. † 17 July 1993 in Moscow) was a Russian historian of mathematics.

Life

Yushkevich came from a Jewish family and was the son of the philosopher Pavel Solomonovich Yushkevich. He grew up partly in Paris, where his father was up to the Russian Revolution in exile. Yushkevich studied in St. Petersburg ( 1915-1917 ), Odessa and from 1923 in Moscow at the Moscow State University (including with Dmitri Egorov and Lusin ), where in 1929 he graduated. From 1930 he was a lecturer and in 1940 professor of mathematics at the Moscow State Institute of Technology (Technical University of Bauman ). In 1938 he was awarded the title candidates (without usual defense ) and 1940 the Russian doctorate from the Moscow University with a thesis on Russian mathematics in the 18th century. In 1952, he lost part of a general political campaign against cosmopolitanism his chair and was from then on at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow ( Vavilov Institute ).

Yushkevich was one of the most important Russian historian of mathematics and has published over 300 articles on the history of mathematics. He explored, among others, the medieval mathematics of the East (with numerous source editions ) and the work Leonhard Euler ( employees at the Opera Omnia of Euler ). He also worked on the history of mathematics in Russia and the emergence of the concept of function (The concept of function of to the middle of the 19.century, archives Hist.Exact Sciences Bd.16, 1971, p.37 -85). 1970 to 1972 he was co-editor of a three-volume work on Russian history of mathematics ( history of mathematics from antiquity to the early 19th century, Moscow, Nauka ) and was with Andrei Kolmogorov the series Mathematics of the 19th century out. In 1948 he founded with Georgii Rybkin the journal of mathematics history Istoriko - Matematicheskie Issledovaniya whose editor he was, until his death. He conducted a seminar on the history of mathematics in Moscow, which was first founded in 1933 by Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya and Mark Yakovlevich Wygodskii at the University of Moscow, with whom Yushkevich was a friend.

1978 Yushkevich was awarded the George Sarton Medal, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science, founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson History of Science Society ( HSS). In 1989 he was awarded with Dirk Struik first Kenneth O. May Prize for Mathematics history. He twice received the Prize of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1978, 1983) and the 1982 Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Leopoldina and 1965-1968 President of the International Academy of the History of Science, whose Koyré medal he received in 1971.

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Writings

• History of mathematics in the Middle Ages, Basel, Palatinate publisher, and Teubner, Leipzig, 1964 ( first Russian 1961)
• The mathematics of the countries of the East in the Middle Ages, Berlin, German Academic Publishers 1963
• Boris Rosenfeld The mathematics of the countries of the East in the Middle Ages, contributions to science, Berlin 1960, p.62 -160
• With Edward Winter ( Editor): The Berlin and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in correspondence Leonhard Euler, 3 volumes, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1959 to 1976
• History of Mathematics in Russia before 1917 (in Russian ), Moscow, Nauka, 1968
• Les Mathématiques arabes. VIIIe -Xe Siècles, Paris, J. Vrin 1976