Pavel Alexandrov

✶May 7, 1896

†November 16, 1982

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Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff, was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.

Soviet mathematician (1896–1982)

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