Ivan Zhegalkin Explained

Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin (; 3 August 1869, Mtsensk  - 28 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet 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 Sofya Yanovskaya in 1959. Reminiscing on his student days, Nikolai Luzin recalls Zhegalkin as the only professor he was not afraid of.

References

• Жега́лкин [Zhegalkin] . Ива́н Ива́нович [Ivan Ivanovich] . Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin . ru:О технике вычислений предложений в символической логике . O Tekhnyke Vychyslenyi Predlozhenyi v Symbolytscheskoi Logykye . On the technique of calculating propositions in symbolic logic (Sur le calcul des propositions dans la logique symbolique) . ru, fr . . 34 . 1 . 9–28 . 1927 . . Moscow, Russia . 2017-10-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171012193119/http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=sm&paperid=7433&option_lang=eng . 2017-10-12 .
• Жега́лкин [Zhegalkin] . Ива́н Ива́нович [Ivan Ivanovich] . Ivan Ivanovich Zhegalkin . Арифметизация Символической Логики . Russian, French . The arithmetization of symbolic logic (L'arithmetisation de la logique symbolique) . . 35 . 3–4 . 1928 . 311–377 . . Moscow, Russia . 2017-10-12 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171012193825/http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=sm&paperid=7400&option_lang=eng . 2017-10-12.
• Book: Владимиров [Vladimirov] . Д. А. [D. A.] . булевы алгебры . Boolean algebras . Russian . . 1969 . 318.
• Book: Владимиров [Vladimirov] . Д. А. [D. A.] . G. . Eisenreich . Boolesche Algebren . German . Boolean algebras . . Berlin, Germany . 1972 . 1974. (NB. German translation of булевы алгебры, 1969.)
• Volkov . V. A. . Two letters of N. N. Luzin to M. Ya. Vygodskiǐ . Historico-Mathematical Investigation . 2 . 133–152 . 1997.
• Book: Колягин . Ю. М. . Саввина . О. А. . Дмитрий Федорович Егоров - Путь ученого и христианина . Russian . Mitry Fedorovich Egorov - The way of the scientist and the christian . Moscow, Russia . ПСТГУ . 2010 . 302 . 978-5-7429-0611-7. (NB. Circulation: 1000.)

External links

• http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/923