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Brief survey of the mathematical legacy of Academician M. Kravchuk. (English) Zbl 1176.01016

M. Kravchuk (1892–1942) was an Ukrainian mathematician from Kyiv whose life was brutally changed 1938 by arrest and trial. Accused of spying and Ukrainian nationalism, he was sentenced to 20 years of confinement and sent to notorious Kolyma lagers where he died. After Stalin’s death he was rehabilitated in 1956. Up to the arrest Kravchuk has published nearly 180 papers on algebra and number theory, theory of functions, differential and integral equations, probability theory and mathematical statistics – many in Ukrainian. His “Selected Mathematical Works” appeared in 2002 and this paper offers a brief outline of some of his achievements.

MSC:

01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
11-03 History of number theory
15-03 History of linear algebra
30D30 Meromorphic functions of one complex variable (general theory)
33C45 Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.)
34A30 Linear ordinary differential equations and systems
60E05 Probability distributions: general theory

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Biographic References:

Kravchuk, Mykhaĭlo Pylypovych
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