Mathematician:Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

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Mathematician

Ukrainian mathematician who worked mainly on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis.

Solved the Kakeya problem in $1928$.


Nationality

Ukrainian


History

  • Born: 23 January 1891 in Berdyansk, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
  • 1924: Went to Copenhagen
  • 1926: Moved to Cambridge
  • Died: 2 November 1970 in Cambridge, UK


Theorems and Conjectures

Results named for Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch can be found here.


Publications


Notable Quotes

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Quoted by John Edensor Littlewood in A Mathematician's Miscellany, 1963


Also known as

Full name in Russian: Абра́м Само́йлович Безико́вич.

His surname can also be seen transliterated as Besikovitch.

Known informally in Cambridge as Bessy.


Sources