Nikolai Brashman

Nikolai Brashman
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman
Born	June 14, 1796(1796-06-14) Neu-Raußnitz, Austrian Empire
Died	May 13, 1866(1866-05-13) (aged 69) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Austrian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Kazan University St Petersburg University
Alma mater	University of Vienna Vienna Polytechnic Institute Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Joseph von Littrow
Doctoral students	Pafnuty Chebyshev Osip Somov
Known for	Mechanics and analytical geometry
Notable awards	Demidov Prize (1836)

Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Брашман; German: Nikolaus Braschmann; June 14, 1796 – May 13, 1866) was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev.

He was born in Neu-Raußnitz (today Rousínov in Czech Republic, then in Austrian Empire) and studied at the University of Vienna and Vienna Polytechnic Institute. In 1824 he moved to St Petersburg and then accepted a position at the Kazan University. In 1834 he became a professor of applied mathematics at the Moscow University. There he is best remembered as a founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society and its journal.

For his mechanics textbook, in 1836 Brashman was awarded the Demidov Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The academy elected him a corresponding member in 1855. He died in Moscow in 1866.

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nikolai Brashman", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brashman.html .
• Nikolai Brashman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Brashman, Nikolai
Alternative names
Short description	Czech Mathematician
Date of birth	June 14, 1796
Place of birth	Rassnova (near Brno), Czech Republic
Date of death	May 13, 1866
Place of death	Moscow, Russia