Although he came to mathematics relatively late in life, Nikolai Nikolaievich Lusin made significant contributions in the area of , measure theory, and set . In fact, he is considered one of the founders of the famous Moscow school of function theory,...

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...

Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин (December 9,1883, Irkutsk – January 28,1950, Moscow), was a Soviet/Russian mathematician. He was noted for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of...

Influential American choreographer and teacher Known as the "wizard" of dance, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) was a multi-talented multimedia pioneer who, over the course of 55 years, choreographed everything from dance, opera and site-specific pieces to work for film and worldwide television. While he...

Stalin's oil commissar If ever there was a round peg in a Soviet round hole, it was Nikolai Baibakov, who served as commissar for the oil industry under Joseph Stalin and was later in charge of general economic planning in the Soviet Union....