References for Sergei Bernstein

  1. A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830904824.html

Books:

  1. N I Akhiezer, Academician S N Berstein and his research on the constructive theory of functions (Russian) (Kharkov, 1955).
  2. R K Kovacheva and H H Gonska (trans.), Das Akademiemitglied S N Bernstein und seine Arbeiten zur konstruktiven Funktionentheorie (Mitt. Math. Sem. Giessen No. 240, 2000).

Articles:

  1. N I Ahiezer and I G Petrovskii, The contribution of S N Bernstein to the theory of partial differential equations (Russian), Uspehi Mat. Nauk 16 (2) (98) (1961), 5-20.
  2. N I Ahiezer and I G Petrovskii, S N Bernshtein's contribution to the theory of partial differential equations, Russian Mathematical Surveys 16 (1961), 1-15.
  3. P S Aleksandrov, N I Ahiezer, B V Gnedenko and A N Kolmogorov, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein: Obituary (Russian), Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk 24 (3) (147) (1969), 211-218.
  4. P S Aleksandrov, N I Ahiezer, B V Gnedenko and A N Kolmogorov, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Obituary), Russian Mathematical Surveys 24 (1969), 169-176.
  5. O M Bogolyubov, S N Bernstein (1880-1968) (Ukrainian), in The Institute of Mathematics. Outlines of its development (Ukrainian) (Akad. Nauk Ukraini, Inst. Mat., Kiev, 1997), 175-189.
  6. A N Bogolyubov, Sergei Natanovich Bernshtein (Russian), Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tekhn. (3) (1991), 56-65.
  7. N S Ermolaeva, A letter from S A Bernshtein to S N Bernshtein and the Moscow school of the theory of functions (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. (2) 5 (40) (2000), 152-163; 382.
  8. A O Gelfond and O V Sarmanov, The eightieth birthday of Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian), Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 24 (1960), 309-314.
  9. S M Gindikin, S N Bernshtein (on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth) (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat. Spis. B'lgar. Akad. Nauk. 23 (56) (2) (1980/81), 152-155.
  10. I A Ibragimov, The works of S N Bernstein in probability theory (Russian), Proceedings of the St Petersburg Mathematical Society 8 (2000), 96-120.
  11. I I Ibragimov, The works of S N Bernstein on the constructive theory of functions (Russian), in Proceedings of the Conference on the Constructive Theory of Functions (Approximation Theory), Budapest, 1969 (Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1972), 27-40.
  12. A N Kolmogorov, Ju V Linnik, Ju V Prohorov and O V Sarmanov, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian), Teor. Verojatnost. i Primenen. 14 (1969), 113-121.
  13. A N Kolmogorov and O V Sarmanov, The works of S N Bernstein on probability theory (Russian), Teor. Verojatnost. i Primenen. 5 (1960), 215-221.
  14. Yu V Linnik, The contribution of S N Bernstein to the theory of probability (Russian), Uspehi Mat. Nauk 16 (2) (98) (1961), 25-26.
  15. Yu V Linnik, On S N Bernshtein's work in the theory of probability, Russian Mathematical Surveys 16 (1961), 21-22.
  16. S M Lozinskii, On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of S N Bernstein (Russian), Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 38 (3) (231) (1983), 191-203.
  17. W Plesniak, Chebyshev, Weierstrass, Jackson, Bernstein and their successors (Polish), Wiadom. Mat. 40 (2004), 97-106.
  18. The seventieth birthday of Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian), Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 14 (1950), 193-198.
  19. K-G Steffens, Constructive Function Theory: Kharkiv, in The History of Approximation Theory : From Euler to Bernstein (Birkhäuser, Boston-Basel-Berlin, 2006), 167-190.
  20. K-G Steffens, Letters from S N Bernshteyn to David Hilbert, East J. Approx. 5 (4) (1999), 501-515.
  21. V S Videnskii, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein - founder of the constructive theory of functions (Russian), Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk 16 (2) (98) (1961), 21-24.
  22. V S Videnskii, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein - founder of the constructive theory of functions, Russian Mathematical Surveys 16 (2) (1961), 17-20.
  23. A P Yushkevich, On the history of scientific relations between mathematicians in the USSR and in France (the election of S N Bernstein, I M Vinogradov and M A Lavrent'ev to the Paris Academy of Sciences) (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. No. 31 (1989), 273-306.
  24. V V Zhuk and G I Natanson, S N Bernstein and direct and inverse theorems in constructive function theory (Russian), Proceedings of the St Petersburg Mathematical Society 8 (2000), 70-95.

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