Boris Yakovych Bukreyev

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Boris Yakovych Bukreyev (September 6, 1859 – October 2, 1962) was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked in the areas of complex functions and differential equations.

In 1889, Bukreyev became a professor of mathematics at the University of Kiev, in Ukraine. He studied Fuchsian functions of rank zero. He was interested in projective and non-Euclidean geometry. He worked on differential invariants and parameters in the theory of surfaces, being interested in the history of mathematics.

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  • A Course on Applications of Differential and Integral Calculus to Geometry
  • An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations
  • Non-Euclidean Planimetry in Analytic Terms

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