Education
Uspensky graduated in 1952 from the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (Lomonosov Moscow State University).
linguist mathematician university professor
Uspensky graduated in 1952 from the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (Lomonosov Moscow State University).
He is the author of numerous papers on mathematical logic and linguistics. In addition, he has also penned a number of memoir essays. Uspensky initiated a reform of linguistic education in Russia.
He was a student of Andrey Kolmogorov.
He is the head of the Chair of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms in the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1995) and one of the founders of the Structural Linguistics branch (now the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics branch) in the Moscow State University Faculty of Philology, where he also teaches. He is the author of many books and of over 100 research papers.
He has prepared 25 candidates and 4 doctors of sciences. He is a distinguished professor at the Moscow State University (1998).