Viktor Bunyakovsky
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Bar, Ukraine
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, Russian Empire
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– , St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
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) was a Russian mathematician
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, member and later vice president
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of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
He worked in theoretical mechanics and number theory
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(see: Bunyakovsky conjecture
Bunyakovsky conjecture
The Bunyakovsky conjecture stated in 1857 by the Russian mathematician Viktor Bunyakovsky, claims that an irreducible polynomial of degree two or higher with integer coefficients generates for natural arguments either an infinite set of numbers with greatest common divisor exceeding unity, or...
), and is credited with an early discovery of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, proving it for the infinite dimensional case in 1859, many years prior to Hermann Schwarz
Hermann Schwarz
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's works on the subject.