Alexander Gelfond

Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (Russian: Александр Осипович Гельфонд; October 24, 1906, St Petersburg — November 7, 1968, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician, author of Gelfond's theorem. Alexander Gelfond was born in St Petersburg, Russia into the family of professional physician and amateur philosopher Osip Isaakovich Gelfond. He entered the Moscow State University in 1924, started his postgraduate studies there in 1927 and obtained his PhD in 193... more

Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (Russian: Александр Осипович Гельфонд; October 24, 1906, St Petersburg — November 7, 1968, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician, author of Gelfond's theorem. Alexander Gelfond was born in St Petersburg, Russia into the family of professional physician and amateur philosopher Osip Isaakovich Gelfond. He entered the Moscow State University in 1924, started his postgraduate studies there in 1927 and obtained his PhD in 1930. His advisers were Alexander Khinchin and Vyacheslav Stepanov. In 1930 he stayed for five months in Germany (in Berlin and Göttingen) where he worked with Edmund Landau, Carl Ludwig Siegel and David Hilbert. In 1931 he started teaching as a Professor at the Moscow State University and worked there until the last day of his life. Since 1933 he also worked at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Gelfond obtained important results in several mathematical... less