Alexander Ostrowski
Alexander Ostrowski · Science & Medicine
Analysis and number theory; Ostrowski's theorem on valuations
1893, Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1986, Montagnola, Switzerland
Switzerland · Germany
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Alexander Ostrowski was a mathematician who worked across analysis, algebra and number theory and is remembered above all for Ostrowski's theorem classifying the absolute values (valuations) on the rational numbers, a cornerstone of number theory. He spent most of his career at Basel. He was born into a Jewish family in Kyiv.
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Analysis and number theory; Ostrowski's theorem on valuations
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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