Mathematician
Born: 15 July 1906 in Odessa, Ukraine
Died: 17 July 1993 in Moscow, Russia
In 1923 aged 17 he started studying mathematics at the Moscow state university and did a PhD with Dimitri Fedorowitsch Egorov as his supervisor. Alongside his two friends Sofya Alexandrovna Janowskaya and Mark Yakovlevich Wygodski who ran the Mathematical History Seminar in Moscow, which was founded in 1933 the trio became known as the founders of the History of Mathematics in the Soviet Union. In 1938 Adolph received his PhD without a defense and 1940 he completed his habilitation at the University of Moscow with his habilitation thesis on Russian mathematics in the 18th century. A year later he became the head of the department. Since 1930 he was working at the Bauman Moscow Technical university which during 1941-43 was evacuated due to WWII to Izhevsk. Adolph published over 200 works on the history of mathematics and received a number of awards including the George Sarton Medal and Koyré medal alongside many prizes and awards from Berlin university and the French academy of science.
Despite all of his awards antisemitic and anti-western policies in the Soviet Union began in 1946 and continued until Stalin’s death in 1953 which greatly affected Adolph’s life in the university. He is well remembered as one of the leading math historians in the world. His interest however was manifold, from his time in France and Ukraine and Russia he learnt to speak many languages and enjoyed poetry and even wrote some of his own, he was particularly fond of the Belarusian artists Chagal.
-http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yushkevich.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_P._Yushkevich accessed 1 March 2019