Background
Yegor was born as a son of Agafya Izotovna Zolotareva and the merchant Ivan Vasilevich Zolotarev in Saint St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia.
Yegor was born as a son of Agafya Izotovna Zolotareva and the merchant Ivan Vasilevich Zolotarev in Saint St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia.
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
In 1857 he began to study at the fifth Street St. Petersburg gymnasium, a school which centred on mathematics and natural science. In the same year he was allowed to be an auditor at the physico-mathematical faculty of Street St. Petersburg university. He had not been able to become a student before 1864 because he was too young.
Among his academic teachers were Somov, Chebyshev and Korkin, with whom he would have a tight scientific friendship.
With this work he was given the right to teach as a private lecturer at Street St. Petersburg university. He first lectured on differential calculus to science students (until summer 1871), later integral calculus and analysis to beginners of mathematics.
Except for a short pause he lectured on elliptic functions to students of higher semesters during his whole job as lecturer and professor He took his first trip abroad in 1872 and visited Berlin and Heidelberg.
In Berlin he attended Weierstrass" "theory of analytic functions", in Heidelberg Koenigsberger"son
The problem Zolotarev solved there was based on a problem Chebyshev had posed earlier, the representation of expressions of the form
by logarithms. This was a question Chebyshev had been interested in since the beginning of his research, but he was unable to solve it without the help of elliptic functions. Starting at the beginning of the winter semester 1876 Zolotarev was appointed extraordinary professor, and after the death of academician Somov he became his successor as an adjunct of the Academy of Sciences.
Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev"s steep career ended abruptly with his early death.
He was on his way to his dacha when he was run over by a train in the Tsarskoe Selo station. On July 19, 1878 he died from blood poisoning.
Yegor Ivanovich is not to be confused with the probabilist Vladimir Mikhaelovich Zolotarev, Kolmogorov"s disciple, who worked on stable distributions with well known results on their parametrization.
In November 1867 he defended his Kandidat thesis “About the Integration of Gyroscope Equations”, after 10 months there followed his thesis pro venia legendi About one question on Minima. In December 1869, Zolotarev defended his master"s thesis “About the Solution of the Indefinite Equation of Third Degree x³ + Ay³ + A²z³ - 3Axyz = 1”. In 1874, Zolotarev become a member of the university staff as a lecturer and in the same year he defended his doctoral thesis “Theory of Complex Numbers with an Application to Integral Calculus”.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.