Background
Yushkevich was born in Odessa, then Russian Empire, in today"s Ukraine, to a Jewish family. His father was a Sorbonne-educated philosopher and a mathematician, active in politics.
historian mathematician university professor
Yushkevich was born in Odessa, then Russian Empire, in today"s Ukraine, to a Jewish family. His father was a Sorbonne-educated philosopher and a mathematician, active in politics.
Moscow State University.
He was a Menshevik who was in "ssylka" (deportation) in Siberia, and later in France. Yushkevich grew up in Saint St. Petersburg and later in Paris where he lived until Russian Revolution of 1917, when Yushkevich family returned to Odessa. In 1923, Yushkevich started his studies at the Department of Mathematics of Moscow State University.
His doctoral advisor was Dmitri Egorov, but he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree without a defense.
From 1930 to 1952 he worked at Bauman Technical University where he rose to professorship in 1940 and head of the department of mathematics in 1941. In the years 1941–1943 he was evacuated to Izhevsk, together with the whole Bauman Technical University.
Starting 1952, he became a full-time researcher at Vavilov Institute of Natural History, where he worked until retirement. Yushkevich published over 300 works in history of mathematics.
Yushkevich died in Moscow in 1993.
He bequeathed his personal library to the Vavilov Institute.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
He was a member of several foreign academies, including German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and president of the International Academy of the History of Science (1965–1968).