Nikolai Bugaev

Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (; September 14, 1837 – June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Early life and education Bugaev was born in Georgia, Russian Empire into a somewhat unstable family (his father was an army doctor), and at the age of ten young Nikolai was sent to Moscow to find his own means of obtaining an education. He graduated in 1859 from Moscow University, where he majored in mathematics and physics. Bugaev then studied engineering and then wrote a master's thesis in 1863 on the convergence of infinite series. This document was considered sufficiently impressive to win him a place studying under Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Kummer in Berlin. He also spent some time in Paris studying under Joseph Liouville. He earned his doctoral degree in 1866. Career After his doctoral degree, Bugaev returned to Moscow and taught there for the remainder of his career. Some of his most influential papers offered proofs of previously unproven assertions of Liouville, but his most original work centered around the development of formal analogies between arithmetic and analytic operations.