Mikhail Ostrogradsky

✶September 24, 1801

†January 1, 1862

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.

Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)

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