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Science & Medicine

Lazar Lusternik

Who

Lazar Lusternik · Science & Medicine

What

Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category

When

1899, Zduńska Wola, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1981, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Soviet Union

Biography

Lazar Lusternik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category

How & why

Lusternik was a Soviet mathematician who, with Lev Schnirelmann, created the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, a topological invariant used to bound the number of critical points of a function and a milestone in the calculus of variations in the large. He worked in topology, functional analysis and numerical methods in Moscow. He was of Jewish origin.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category

1899

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics