Lev Pontryagin

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.

3 September 1908

Born on the same birth day (3 September): Caryl Churchill • Cindy Burger (footballer) • Eduardo Galeano • Emperor Go-Sanjō • Ferdinand Porsche • Gaston Thorn • Hank Thompson (musician) • Lee So-jung • Louis Sullivan • Mary Grace Canfield • Mohammed Shami • Prudence Crandall • Steven Johnson Leyba • Veronika Domjan • Yoane Wissa

Born in the same month (September 1908): Chu Berry • Joaquín Nin-Culmell • Karolos Koun • Kid Sheik • Korczak Ziolkowski • Mae Questel • Paul Brown • Renzo Rivolta • Richard Wright (author) • Sicco Mansholt • Waldo Rudolph Wedel • Werner Flume