Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin

Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin (Russian Ива́н Ива́нович Жега́лкин; alternative romanizations: Žegalkin, Gégalkine, Shegalkin[1]) (3 August 1869, Mtsensk – 28 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his formulation of Boolean algebra as the theory of the ring of integers mod 2, via what are now called Zhegalkin polynomials.

Zhegalkin was professor of mathematics at Moscow State University. He helped found the thriving mathematical logic group there, which became the Department of Mathematical Logic established by Sofia Janovskaja in 1959. Reminiscing on his student days, Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin recalls Zhegalkin as the only professor he was not afraid of.

See also

• Zhegalkin addition

References

1. Steinbach, Bernd; Posthoff, Christian (2009-02-12). "Preface". Written at Freiberg, Germany. Logic Functions and Equations - Examples and Exercises (1st ed.). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-4020-9594-8. LCCN 2008941076.

• Жега́лкин [Zhegalkin], Ива́н Ива́нович [Ivan Ivanovich] (1927). "О технике вычислений предложений в символической логике" [On the technique of calculating propositions in symbolic logic (Sur le calcul des propositions dans la logique symbolique)]. Matematicheskii Sbornik (in Russian and French). Moscow, Russia. 34 (1): 9–28. Mi msb7433. Archived from the original on 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
• Жега́лкин [Zhegalkin], Ива́н Ива́нович [Ivan Ivanovich] (1928). "Арифметизация Символической Логики" [The arithmetization of symbolic logic (L'arithmetisation de la logique symbolique)]. Matematicheskii Sbornik (in Russian and French). Moscow, Russia. 35 (3–4): 311–377. Mi msb7400. Archived from the original on 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
• Владимиров [Vladimirov], Д. А. [D. A.] (1969). булевы алгебры [Boolean algebras] (in Russian). Наука [Nauka]. p. 318.
• Владимиров [Vladimirov], Д. А. [D. A.] (1974) [1972]. Eisenreich, G. (ed.). Boolesche Algebren [Boolean algebras] (in German). Berlin, Germany: Akademie-Verlag. (NB. German translation of булевы алгебры, 1969.)
• Volkov, V. A. (1997). "Two letters of N. N. Luzin to M. Ya. Vygodskiǐ". Historico-Mathematical Investigation. 2: 133–152.
• Колягин, Ю. М.; Саввина, О. А. (2010). Дмитрий Федорович Егоров - Путь ученого и христианина [Mitry Fedorovich Egorov - The way of the scientist and the christian] (in Russian). Moscow, Russia: ПСТГУ. p. 302. ISBN 978-5-7429-0611-7. (NB. Circulation: 1000.)

External links

• http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/923

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