Russian mathematician at the University of St. Petersburg born in Okatovo, a small town west of Moscow, of remarkable discoveries in the study of advanced calculus and applied mathematics. From a military family, he was one of nine children of Lev Pavlovich Chebyshev and Agrafena Ivanova Pozniakova e he was educated in Okatovo, especially by his mother and a teacher cousin, Avdotia Kvintillianova Soukhareva.
His family moved to Moscow (1832) and he was tutored by mathematician P. N. Pogorelski and entered Moscow University (1837) where he produced his first paper Calculus of Roots of Equations (1941). He made his first publication in the Journal de Crelle (1844) and defended his master's thesis (1846). He wrote his most important book Theory of sravneny (1849) on congruence theory, which earned him a doctoral degree. For this work he also received the Academy of Sciences award.
He became a junior scholar at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1853) with the Chair of Mathematics applied, extraordinary academic (1856) and an ordinary academic (1859), again with the chair of mathematics applied. A rival to Lobachevsky as the country's foremost mathematician in his time, he first became a foreign correspondent member of the Institute. of France (1860) and, later, foreign associate (1874) and member of the Royal Society of London (1877) and of several other institutions for the Europe.
He retired as a professor at the University of St. Petersburg (1882) where he published hundreds of works and received many honors during his career and died in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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