Lazar Lusternik
Lazar Lusternik · Science & Medicine
Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
1899, Zduńska Wola, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1981, Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Lazar Lusternik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
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.
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Topology; Lusternik-Schnirelmann category
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