Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin

Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Суслин; * 3 Novemberjul / November 15 1894greg in Krassawka in Saratov, .. † October 21, 1919 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician who made ​​important contributions to measure theory and descriptive set theory provided.

Suslin studied from 1913 to 1917 at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and was a pupil of Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin and Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov, in whose seminar he was classmate of Waclaw Sierpiński and Pavel Urysohn. Suslin proved there in 1916 the then sensational result that imported by the French mathematician Émile Borel Borel sets ( B- quantities ) already in the formation of projections of the plane must be on a straight line no Borel sets ( such as Henri Lebesgue originally meant to have proved ). From the following co-operation with the theory of the A- Lusin amounts ( Suslin amounts or analytical amounts ) comprising the Borel - quantities originated. Suslin also characterized the Borel sets under the analytical quantities as precisely those which are itself and its complement analytically. The publication of 1917 was the only one of Suslin. In 1919, he died of typhoid fever.

Suslin is also known by the Suslin hypothesis, published posthumously as a problem in the first volume of the newly formed Fundamenta Mathematicae. It deals with the characterization of the real numbers by their order properties. In the 1960s, it was shown ( by Robert M. Solovay, Stanley Tennenbaum, Thomas Jech ) that it is like the continuum hypothesis independent of the axioms of Zermelo -Fraenkel set theory.