J. V. Uspensky

James Victor Uspensky ( born April 29, 1883 in Urga, Mongolia, † January 27, 1947 in San Francisco ) was a Russian -born American mathematician.

Uspensky studied at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he graduated in 1906 and 1910 made ​​his doctorate ( Ph.D. Russian equivalent, postdoctoral ). From 1912 he was a lecturer in Saint Petersburg and from 1915 to 1923 professor. In the 1920s, he went to the USA, but he did not need to flee, he took advantage of an officially approved and funded trip abroad. From 1929 he was a professor at Stanford University, where in 1931 he received a permanent professorship and remained until his death. At Stanford, he was a colleague of George Pólya.

Uspensky worked on number theory, probability theory and calculus.

From 1921 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Among his students in Saint Petersburg counted Ivan Matveyitch Vinogradov.

Writings

• An introduction to mathematical probability, McGraw Hill 1937
• Elementary Number Theory, McGraw Hill 1939
• Theory of Equations, McGraw Hill 1948, 1963