Nina Bari
Encyclopedia
Nina Karlovna Bari was a Soviet mathematician
known for her work on trigonometric series. She was killed by a train in the Moscow Metro
, and her colleagues speculated that she committed suicide
, prompted by the death of her mentor Nikolai Luzin
ten years earlier, a man who may have been her lover.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
known for her work on trigonometric series. She was killed by a train in the Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
, and her colleagues speculated that she committed suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
, prompted by the death of her mentor 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...
ten years earlier, a man who may have been her lover.