- Ervand Kogbetliantz
Ervand George Kogbetliantz ( _hy. Երվանդ Գէորգ Կոգբետլյանց; Armenia 1888- New York 1974) was an Armenian/American mathematician and the first president of the
Yerevan State University . He received a Doctorate in mathematics from theUniversity of Paris in 1923. His mathematical work was mainly oninfinite series , on the theory oforthogonal polynomial s, on an algorithm forsingular value decomposition which bears his name, on algorithms for the evaluation of elementary functions in computers, and on the enumeration of prime elements of theGaussian integers . He also invented a three dimensional version of chess.
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