Lev Shnirelman
Lev Shnirelman · Science & Medicine
Number theory; Shnirelman density and additive bases
1905, Gomel, Belarus (Russian Empire) — 1938, Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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Shnirelman, a Soviet Jewish mathematician regarded as a prodigy, made lasting contributions to number theory and topology despite dying at only 33. He introduced 'Shnirelman density' and used it to prove that every natural number can be written as a sum of a bounded number of primes, an early result toward Goldbach's conjecture. With Lazar Lyusternik he also developed a variational method that resolved a classic problem on closed geodesics.
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Number theory; Shnirelman density and additive bases
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