Lev Schnirelmann
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Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (Russian: Лев Генрихович Шнирельман), also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man (born January 2, 1905 in Gomel, died September 24, 1938 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician who sought to prove Goldbach's conjecture. In 1931, using the Brun sieve, he proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than 300,000 primes.
His other fundamental work is joint with Lazar Lyusternik. Together, they developed the Lyusternik-Schnirelmann category, as it is called now, based on the previous work by Henri Poincaré, David Birkhoff, and Marston Morse. The theory gives a global invariant of spaces, and has led to advances in differential geometry and topology.
According to Pontryagin's memoir, Schnirelmann died in Moscow after committing suicide.
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- Lev Schnirelmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Lev Schnirelmann". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Lev Genrihovich Schnirelmann, a popular article by V. Tikhomirov and V. Uspensky (in Russian)ru:Шнирельман, Лев Генрихович
