Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Серге́й Ната́нович Бернште́йн, sometimes Romanized as Bernshtein) (March 5, 1880 – October 26, 1968) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who was born in Odessa, Imperial Russia and died in Moscow, USSR.

His doctoral dissertation, submitted in 1904 to the Sorbonne, solved Hilbert's nineteenth problem on the analytic solution of elliptic differential equations. Later, S.B. published numerous works on Probability theory, Constructive function theory, mathematical foundations of genetics, et cet. From 1906 until 1933, Bernstein was the leading light of the Kharkov Mathematical Society.

See also

* Bernstein's inequality (mathematical analysis)
* Bernstein inequalities in probability theory
* Bernstein polynomial
* Bernstein's theorem
* Dmitrii Sintsov

External links

* Sergei Natanovich Bernstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* MacTutor Bernstein biography
* History of Approximation Theory (HAT) page
* Bernstein problem in mathematical genetics (Encyclopaedia of Mathematics)

References

* S.N.Bernstein, Collected Works (Russian):
o vol. 1, The Constructive Theory of Functions (1905-1930), translated: Atomic Energy Commission, Springfield, Va, 1958
o vol. 2, The Constructive Theory of Functions ((1931-1953)
o vol. 3, Differential equations, calculus of variations and geometry (1903-1947)
o vol. 4, Theory of Probability. Mathematical statistics (1911-1946)
* S.N.Bernstein, The Theory of Probabilities (Russian), Moscow, Leningrad, 1946
* Y.I.Lyubich, Bernstein algebras (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 1977