Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky
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Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
) is a prominent Ukrainian
Ukrainians
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mathematician
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....
most famous for developing Sharkovsky's Theorem in 1964. In 2006 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
External links
- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sharkovsky.html