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Lev Pontryagin

Soviet mathematician1908 to 1988

Wikidata names Pavel Aleksandrov as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Pavel Aleksandrov

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
born 1919
stated by Wikidata
Evgeny Mishenko
born 1922
stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Boltyansky
born 1925
stated by Wikidata
Mikhail Postnikov
born 1927
stated by Wikidata
Revaz Gamkrelidze
born 1927
stated by Wikidata
Anatoly Butkovsky
born 1934
stated by Wikidata
Dmitri Anosov
born 1936
stated by Wikidata
Mikhail Zelikin
born 1936
stated by Wikidata
Arkady Chirky
born 1945

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Pavel Aleksandrov

Taught7

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
born 1919
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Evgeny Mishenko
born 1922
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Vladimir Boltyansky
born 1925
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Revaz Gamkrelidze
born 1927
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Anatoly Butkovsky
born 1934
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dmitri Anosov
born 1936
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Mikhail Zelikin
born 1936

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataPavel Aleksandrov
2 steps up
stated by WikidataDmitri Egorovstated by WikidataNikolai Luzin
3 steps up
stated by WikidataNikolai Bugaev
4 steps up
stated by WikidataErnst Kummerstated by WikidataJoseph Liouvillestated by WikidataKarl Weierstraß

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 283 people: 283 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1925 to 1929
Lomonosov Moscow State University
studied
1929 to 1934
Lomonosov Moscow State University
worked
1934 to 1988
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher
fields: topology, calculus of variations, control theory, mathematics, algebraic topology, differential topology, optimal control, mathematical optimization
degrees: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, 1935
awards: Stalin Prize, 1941, USSR State Prize, 1975, Order of Lenin, 1953, Hero of Socialist Labour, 1969, Order of the October Revolution, 1975, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1945, Order of the Badge of Honour, 1940, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Lenin Prize, 1962, Lobachevsky Prize, 1966, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
member of: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1939 to 1958, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from 1958
notable works: Pontryagin class, Pontryagin surface, Pontryagin duality, Pontryagin's maximum principle, Pontryagin number, Pontryagin cohomology operation, Pontryagin product, Andronov–Pontryagin criterion
Wikipedia: in 39 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaLev Pontryagin
stated by WikidataWikidataQ451319
stated by WikidataVIAF108620400
stated by WikidataGND118741489
stated by WikidataIdRef033159181
stated by WikidataISNI0000000453030502

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project49073

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q451319,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Lev Pontryagin: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q451319},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Lev Pontryagin: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q451319