Konstantin Posse

Konstantin Posse
Born	September 29, 1847
Died	August 24, 1928 (aged 80)
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Odessa State University
Alma mater	St. Petersburg State University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Veniamin Kagan D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi

Konstantin Alexandrovich Posse (Russian: Константин Александрович Поссе; St. Petersburg, September 29, 1847 – Leningrad, August 24, 1928) was a Russian mathematician know for contributions to analysis and in particular approximation theory.^[1] Veniamin Kagan and D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi were among his students.

Selected publications

• Possé, C. (1885). "Quelques remarques sur une certaine question de minimum". Mathematische Annalen. 26 (4): 593–596. doi:10.1007/BF01444256. ISSN 0025-5831. JFM 18.0325.01.
• Possé, C. (1886). Sur quelques applications des fractions continues algébriques. St. Petersburg. JFM 18.0161.02.

Notes

1. Steffens, Karl-Georg (2006). The history of approximation theory. From Euler to Bernstein. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, Inc. pp. 114–119. doi:10.1007/0-8176-4475-X. ISBN 978-0-8176-4353-9. MR 2190312.

Further reading

• Сергеев, А.А. (1997). Константин Александрович Поссе, 1847–1928. Научно-биографическая литература (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. ISBN 5-02-003692-7.

External links

• Konstantin Posse at the Mathematics Genealogy Project