Background
GERSEVANOV, Nikolay was born on February 28, 1879.
GERSEVANOV, Nikolay was born on February 28, 1879.
1901 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineer.
From 1923 professor, Moscow Institute of Communications Engineer. From 1931 head, Chair of Hydrotech Structures, Military Transport Academy and sci director, All-Union Institute of Foundations and Substructures. 1914 devised method of calculating widc-span pier structures which was extensively used for building wharves in Sot ports.
1917 developed still-valid formula for determining the failure rate of piles. Specialized in the mech of ground soil as a material for foundations in civil engineering Was one of first engineering to apply new mathematical methods to engineering calculations.
1906-1908 pioneered nomography in Russia. 1923 experimented with the application of algebraic logic to engineering calculations.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939.