Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin (russian: Николай Александрович Шанин) (25 May 1919
Pskov – 17 September 2011) was a Russian mathematician who worked on
topology and
constructive mathematics
In the philosophy of mathematics, constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a specific example of a mathematical object in order to prove that an example exists. Contrastingly, in classical mathematics, one can prove th ...
. He introduced the
delta-system lemma
In the mathematical fields of set theory and extremal combinatorics, a sunflower or \Delta-system is a collection of sets whose pairwise intersection is constant. This constant intersection is called the kernel of the sunflower.
The main rese ...
and the
caliber
In guns, particularly firearms, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the finished bore match ...
of a topological space.
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shaninat the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg
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Russian mathematicians
1919 births
2011 deaths
People from Pskov