ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky

Full name in Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Буняковский.

Best known for his contribution to the Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality.

Nationality

Ukrainian.

History

• Born: December 16 1804, Bar, Podolskaya gubernia (now Vinnitsa oblast), Ukraine
• Died: December 12 1889, St Petersburg, Russia

Theorems and Conjectures

• Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz Inequality (with Augustin Louis Cauchy and Hermann Amandus Schwarz)
• Bunyakovsky Conjecture

Books and Papers

• 1825: Rotary motion in a resistant medium of a set of plates of constant thickness and defined contour around an axis inclined with respect to the horizon
• 1825: Determination of the radius-vector in elliptical motion of planets
• 1825: Heat propagation in solids
• 1846: Foundations of the mathematical theory of probability

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive