1883-1950

Russian mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of functions, sets, and boundaries. Luzin earned a doctorate at Moscow University, where he was granted a professorship in the Department of Pure Mathematics just before the 1917 Revolution. In 1927 Luzin won membership in the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R, and in 1935 became head of the Department of the Theory of Functions of Real Variables at the Steklov Institute.