Adolph Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (1906-1993)

✍ Scribed by Isabella Bashmakova; A.N. Bogolyubov; S.S. Demidov; B.V. Gnedenko; E. Knobloch; Galina Matvievskaya; D.E. Rowe; B.A. Rozenfeld; O.B. Sheynin; V.M. Tikhomirov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 825 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0315-0860
• DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1995.1012

✦ Synopsis

As a student, he became closely acquainted with A. O. Gelfond (1906O. Gelfond ( -1968)), the eminent number theorist, and they remained on friendly terms until Gelfond's death.

From 1930 to 1952, Adolph Pavlovich was affiliated with the Moscow Higher Technical School, where he was appointed to a professorship in 1940 and then named head of the mathematics section one year later. After 1945 he also held a position at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences and Technology (IHNST) of the USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences. Forced to leave the Moscow Higher Technical School when the notorious campaign against cosmopolitanism went into full swing, he continued working at the IHNST for the remainder of his life.

Yushkevich's first work, "Lazare Carnot's Philosophy of Mathematics," appeared in 1929 (Estestvoznanie i marksism 3(1929): 83-99). Over the next 64 years, he published well over 300 historical works that left hardly any essential area in the history of pure or applied mathematics untouched (a list of his selected publications