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Lev Pontryagin

Lev Pontryagin

Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
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🗓️ 3 May 1988

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.

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