Davidov

August Yulevich Davidov

Born: 15 Dec 1823 in Libav, Russia
 Died: 22 Dec 1885 in Moscow, Russia

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Davidov taught at Moscow University, from where he obtained a doctorate in 1851, for the whole of his life. Davidov was a co-founder of the Moscow Mathematical Society.

Davidov was the first to give a general analytic method for determining the position of equilibrium of a floating body. He also worked on partial differential equations, elliptic functions and the application of probability to statistics.

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