Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Grave entered the mathematics department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1881. In 1896 he defended his doctoral dissertation.
Career
Gallery of Dmitry Grave
Russian Federation
Dmitry Grave
Achievements
Membership
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
1920 - 1939
Ukraine
Grave was elected to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1920.
Awards
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian Federation
Grave was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Grave entered the mathematics department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1881. In 1896 he defended his doctoral dissertation.
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave was a Russian and Soviet mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics at the Universities of Kharkiv and Kyiv.
Background
Dmitry Grave was born on September 6, 1863, in Kirillov, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kirillov, Kirillovsky District, Russian Federation). In 1871, after the death of Grave’s father, a petty official, the family moved to St. Petersburg.
Education
Grave entered the mathematics department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University) in 1881 and studied under P. L. Chebyshev and his pupils A. N. Korkin, I. I. Zolotarev, and A. A. Markov. After graduating in 1885, Grave continued at St. Petersburg as a postgraduate, and in 1889 he defended his master’s thesis. In 1896 he defended his doctoral dissertation.
In 1889 Grave started his teaching career at the University of St Petersburg as a Privatdozent. In 1897 he became a professor at the University of Kharkiv. In 1902 Grave moved to the University of Kyiv, where the rest of his work was done.
Grave’s mathematical researches were originally connected with Chebyshev’s school and were especially influenced by Korkin. In his master’s thesis, he developed methods originated by C. G. J. Jacobi and Korkin and, taking up a subject proposed by Korkin, contributed to the three-body problem. His doctoral dissertation, the subject of which also was proposed by Korkin, touched upon map projection researches by Euler, Lagrange, and Chebyshev. In it Grave presented a comprehensive study of equal-area plane projections of a sphere, with meridians and parallels being represented on the plane by straight lines and circumferences respectively.
At the beginning of his Kyiv period Grave took up algebra and number theory. A brilliant speaker and organizer, he created a school which later became prominent. Among his pupils were Otto J. Schmidt, N. G. Chebotaryov, B. N. Delone, and A. M. Ostrovsky. In 1908-1914 Grave published several original and comprehensive works in algebra and number theory.
He continued his research and teaching activities well after the October Revolution. In this period Grave’s interest shifted to mechanics and applied mathematics, then returned to algebra in his last years. His last work on algebraic calculus was conceived as a comprehensive study, of which he was able to publish only two volumes.
In 1934 Grave founded the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and became its first director. From 1910 to 1925 he was also a professor at the Kyiv Commercial Institute, where he organized an insurance business office. In 1916 he was elected dean of the commercial technical department.
Grave was elected to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1920 and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1924. He was also a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
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Ukraine
1920 - 1939
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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U.S.S.R.
1924 - 1939
Connections
In 1902, after the death of his mother and wife, Dmitry Grave was left with three children and poor health. Since the fall of 1906, he was treated abroad for a year, where he met the daughter of a German peasant from Moravia, Maria Richter, who became his second wife.