Celestyn Burstin
Celestyn Burstin (1888-1938) was an Austrian-Soviet mathematician. He was born in 1888 in Tarnopol (Austro-Hungary, currently Ukraine), graduated from the University of Vienna in 1911, and earned a doctorate degree in 1912. Being a Jew and a communist, he had difficulty to get an academic appointment in German-speaking lands, and moved to Minsk in 1929, where he was appointed as a professor of the Belarusian State University, and as the director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences; shortly thereafter he was also elected as a member of the Academy.
In 1925 he joined the Austrian communist party, and after emigration to Russia, the Soviet communist party. In 1931, after a coup d’etat in the Moscow Mathematical Society, led by the communist zealots preaching the “class character of science,” he became a member of the Society’s ruling board.
He was arrested in 1937 and died in prison in Minsk in 1938. He was rehabilitated in 1956.[1]
Burstin's mathematical work included contributions to differential geometry, measure theory, and general algebraic systems.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Vassily Olegovich Manturov, Louis H Kauffman. "New Ideas In Low Dimensional Topology." World Scientific. 2015. Page 420.
- ^ Pasha Zusmanovich, "Mathematicians Going East," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 14 Issue 1 (January 2024), pages 114-167. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.EGCM7534. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol14/iss1/8.
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