Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin

Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin

Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin (Russian Иван Иванович Жегалкин; alternative romanizations: Žegalkin, Gégalkine) (1869 - 1947) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his formulation of Boolean algebra as the theory of the ring of integers mod 2, via what are now called Zhegalkin polynomials.

Zhegalkin was professor of mathematics at Moscow State University. He helped found the thriving mathematical logic group there, which became the Department of Mathematical Logic established by Sofia Janovskaja in 1959. Reminiscing on his student days, Nikolai Luzin recalls Zhegalkin as the only professor he was not afraid of.

References

* cite journal
last = Volkov
first = V.A.
title = Two letters of N.N. Luzin to M.Ya. Vygodskiǐ
journal = Historico-Mathematical Investigation
volume = 2
pages = 133–152
date = 1997
id =

* cite book
last = Vladimirov
first = D.A.
title = булевы алгебры (Boolean algebras, in Russian, German translation Boolesche Algebren 1974)
publisher = Nauka (German translation Akademie-Verlag)
year = 1969

* cite journal
last = Zhegalkin
first = Ivan Ivanovich
authorlink = Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin
title = On the Technique of Calculating Propositions in Symbolic Logic
journal = Matematicheskii Sbornik
volume = 43
pages = 9–28
date = 1927
id =

ee also

* Zhegalkin polynomial
* Moscow State University
* Boolean algebra (introduction)
* Boolean logic
* Boolean algebras


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