Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, was a Soviet/Russian mathematician. He was noted for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose grouping of young Moscow mathematicians in the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematics. He started studying mathematics in 1901 at Moscow University, … Wikipedia
Tsunami swept over the Russian mathematical community in 1999 after publication of the book The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin [ 1]. www.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/case_e.html
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