Julian Karol Sochocki (russian: Юлиан Васильевич Сохоцкий; pl, Julian Karol Sochocki; February 2, 1842 in

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– December 14, 1927 in

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) was a Russian-

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. His name is sometimes transliterated from Russian in several different ways (e.g. Sokhotski or Sochotski).

Life and work

Sochocki was born in

under the

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n domination to a Polish family, where he attended state gymnasium. In 1860 he registered at the physico-mathematical department of

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. His study there was interrupted for the period 1860–1865 because of his involvement with Polish nationalist movement: he had to return to Warsaw to escape prosecution. In 1866 he graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics at the

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. In 1868 he received his master's degree and in 1873 his

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. His master's dissertation, practically the first text in Russian mathematical literature on

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method of residues, was published in 1868. The dissertation itself contains many original grasps, which have been also ascribed to other mathematicians. His doctoral thesis contains the famous

Sokhotski–Plemelj theorem The Sokhotski–Plemelj theorem (Polish spelling is ''Sochocki'') is a theorem in complex analysis, which helps in evaluating certain integrals. The real-line version of it ( see below) is often used in physics, although rarely referred to by nam ...

. From 1868 Sochotcki lectured at the St Petersburg university, first as the "privat-docent", from 1882 as an ordinary professor, and from 1893 as a merited professor. In 1894 he was elected corresponding member of the

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. Sochocki died on December 14, 1927 in a nursing home in

. Sochocki is mainly remembered for the

Casorati–Sokhotski–Weierstrass theorem In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions near their essential singularities. It is named for Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass and Felice Casorati. In Russian ...

and for the

Selected publications

* ''Теорiя интегральныхъ вычетовъ с нѣкоторыми приложенiями'' (''A Theory of Integral Residues with Some Applications'') (1868) * ''Объ определенныхъ интегралахъ и функцiяхъ употребляемыхъ при разложенiяхъ въ ряды'' (''On Definite Integrals and Functions Used in Series Expansions'') (1873) * ''О суммахъ Гаусса и о законе взаимности символа Лежандра'' (''On Gauss Sums and the Reciprocity Law of the Legendre Symbol'') (1877) * ''Высшая алгебра'' (''Higher Algebra'') (St. Petersburg, 1882) * ''Теорiя чиселъ'' (''Number Theory'') (St. Petersburg, 1888) * ''Начало общего наибольшего делителя въ применении к теорiи делимости алгебраическихъ чиселъ'' (''The Principle of the Greatest Common Divisor Applied to Divisibility Theory of Algebraic Numbers'') (1893), ,

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Zentralblatt profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Sokhotski, Yulian Vasilievich Number theorists Saint Petersburg State University alumni Russian people of Polish descent Scientists from Warsaw Polish mathematicians 19th-century mathematicians from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian mathematicians 1842 births 1927 deaths