Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Belarus

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.

-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

Belarus

Issai Schur $($$\text {1875}$ – $\text {1941}$$)$

Jewish mathematician of Russian descent working mainly in group theory and combinatorics.

Worked most of his life in Germany, then emigrated to Palestine in 1939 as a result of political persecution, and died a pauper.
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Rodion Osievich Kuzmin $($$\text {1891}$ – $\text {1949}$$)$

Russian mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis.
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Naum Ilyich Akhiezer $($$\text {1901}$ – $\text {1980}$$)$

Russian mathematician, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators.
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Dov Jarden $($$\text {1911}$ – $\text {1986}$$)$

Belarussian-born Israeli mathematician, writer and linguist best known for his published works.
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Regina Iosifovna Tyshkevich $($$\text {1929}$ – $\text {2019}$$)$

Russian expert in graph theory.

Her main scientific interests include intersection graphs, degree sequences, and the reconstruction conjecture.

Also known for co-inventing split graphs and for her contributions to line graphs of hypergraphs.
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