References for Pafnuty Chebyshev


    1. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    Books:
    1. H Bernhard, Chebyshev, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).
    2. A M Lyapunov, Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Kharkov, 1895).
    Articles:
    1. P L Butzer and F Jongmans, P L Chebyshev (1821-1894) and his Contacts with Western European Scientists, Historia Mathematica 16 (1989), 46-68.
    2. M G Cox, Piecewise Chebyshev series, Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 22 (11-12) (1986), 163-166.
    3. V I Dzyadyk, A result of P L Chebyshev in approximation theory (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. 26 (1982), 168-171.
    4. G B Halsted, Biography. Pafnutij Lvovitsch Tchebychey, Amer. Math. Monthly 2 (1895), 61-63.
    5. S N Kruzhkov, On the 170th anniversary of the birth of P L Chebyshev (Russian), Vestnik Moskov. Univ. Ser. I Mat. Mekh. (5) (1991), 2-4.
    6. M I Pulatova, The Chebyshev mathematical school (Russian), in Achievements in the development of the mathematical sciences (Kiev, 1994), 17-23.
    7. R Roy, The work of Chebyshev on orthogonal polynomials, in Topics in polynomials of one and several variables and their applications (River Edge, NJ, 1993), 495-512.
    8. O Sheynin, Chebyshev's lectures on the Theory of Probability, Archive for History of Exact Science 46 (1993-94), 321-340.
    9. D Stander, Makers of modern mathematics: Pafnuty Liwowich Chebyshev, Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 26 (1-2) (1990), 18-19.
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