Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev

1821 - 1894

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Pafnuty Chebyshev is largely remembered for his investigations in number theory. Chebyshev was also interested in mechanics and is famous for the orthogonal polynomials he invented.
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List of References (35 books/articles)

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  1. Chebyshev nets
  2. A comment from Thomas Hirst's diary

Honours awarded to Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Fellow of the Royal Society1877
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  4. H K Strick
  5. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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