Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Сергей Натанович Бернштейн, sometimes Romanized as Bernshtein) (March 5, 1880 - October 26, 1968) was a mathematician who was born in Odessa, Imperial Russia and died in Moscow, USSR.

His doctoral dissertation, submitted in 1904 to the Sorbonne, solved Hilbert's nineteenth problem on the analytic solution of elliptic differential equations. Later, S.B. published numerous works on Probability theory, Constructive function theory, mathematical foundations of genetics, et cet. From 1906 until 1933, Bernstein was the leading light of the Kharkov Mathematical Society.

See also

• Bernstein's inequality (mathematical analysis)
• Bernstein inequalities in probability theory
• Bernstein polynomial
• Bernstein's theorem
• Bernstein algebras, Bernstein problem in mathematical genetics
• Dmitrii Sintsov

External links

• MacTutor Bernstein biography
• History of Approximation Theory (HAT) page
• Bernstein problem in mathematical genetics (Encyclopaedia of Mathematics)

References

• S.N.Bernstein, Collected Works (Russian):
• vol. 1, The Constructive Theory of Functions (1905-1930), translated: Atomic Energy Commission, Springfield, Va, 1958
• vol. 2, The Constructive Theory of Functions ((1931-1953)
• vol. 3, Differential equations, calculus of variations and geometry (1903-1947)
• vol. 4, Theory of Probability. Mathematical statistics (1911-1946)
• S.N.Bernstein, The Theory of Probabilities (Russian), Moscow, Leningrad, 1946
• Y.I.Lyubich, Bernstein algebras (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 1977