Pavel Alexandrov

Pavel Alexandrov
Born	Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (1896-05-07)7 May 1896 Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	16 November 1982(1982-11-16) (aged 86) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Dmitri Egorov Nikolai Luzin
Doctoral students	Aleksandr Kurosh Lev Pontryagin Yu. M. Smirnov Petru Soltan Andrey Tikhonov Lev Tumarkin

Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.