Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov
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Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov was a Russia
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n mathematician
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 known for his contributions to the theory of trigonometric series.

He was a student of Nikolai Luzin
Nikolai Luzin
Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, , was a Soviet/Russian mathematician known for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose group of young Moscow mathematicians of the first half of the...

. He was an advisor of Sergey Borisovich Stechkin
Sergey Borisovich Stechkin
Sergey Borisovich Stechkin was a prominent Soviet mathematician who worked in theory of functions and number theory....

. He received USSR State Prize
USSR State Prize
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 in 1951. He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 in 1953.

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  • Mathematics Genealogy Project - Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov
  • Mini Biography – from the Russian Academy of Sciences
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