Mikhail Ostrogradsky

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky was a Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.

24 September 1801

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