26 Facts About Viktor Bunyakovsky

Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky was born in Bar, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire in 1804.

Viktor Bunyakovsky was a son of Colonel Yakov Vasilievich Viktor Bunyakovsky of a cavalry regiment, who was killed in Finland in 1809.

Viktor Bunyakovsky obtained his initial mathematical education at the home of his father's friend, Count Alexander Tormasov, in St Petersburg.

At the Sorbonne, Viktor Bunyakovsky had opportunity to attend lectures from Laplace and Poisson.

Viktor Bunyakovsky focused his study and research on mathematics and physics.

In 1824, Viktor Bunyakovsky received his bachelor's degree from the Sorbonne.

Viktor Bunyakovsky successfully completed his dissertation on theoretical physics, theoretical mechanics and mathematical physics, and obtained his doctorate under Cauchy's supervision.

Viktor Bunyakovsky lectured on mathematics and mechanics at the First Cadet Corps from 1826 to 1831 and at the Communications Institute in St Petersburg.

From 1828 to 1864, Viktor Bunyakovsky was attached to the officer classes at the Naval Academy in St Petersburg.

From 1846 to 1880, Viktor Bunyakovsky was a professor at St Petersburg University in St Petersburg, Russia.

In 1859, Viktor Bunyakovsky taught mathematics at St Petersburg State Railways University, named after Alexander I in St Petersburg, Russia.

Alongside his teaching responsibilities, Viktor Bunyakovsky made significant scientific contributions in number theory and probability theory.

Viktor Bunyakovsky worked on theoretical mechanics and number theory.

Viktor Bunyakovsky is an author of Foundations of the mathematical theory of probability.

Viktor Bunyakovsky became a member of the precursor organization to the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Viktor Bunyakovsky was named an adjunct in mathematics, an extraordinary academician, and an ordinary academician at the physics and mathematics division.

Viktor Bunyakovsky was the Vice President of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences for 25 years.

Viktor Bunyakovsky wrote around 150 research works and a number of books.

Viktor Bunyakovsky published his first volume: Lexicon of fundamental and applied mathematics, which was written until letter "D" in Russia in 1839.

Foundations of mathematical theory of probability, by Viktor Bunyakovsky was published by Imperial Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg in St Petersburg in 1846.

Viktor Bunyakovsky wrote a research article titled: "On possibility of introduction of certain measures of trust to results of some sciences and statistics mainly", which was published in Sovremennik in Russia in 1848.

Viktor Bunyakovsky published his monograph: "The parallel lines" in which he provided the scientific evidences to the problems in the parallel lines theory in Russia in 1853.

Viktor Bunyakovsky wrote a research article titled: "Biological researches and their application to man's population in Russia", which was published in "Zapiski Academii Nauk" in Russia in 1873 or 1874.

Viktor Bunyakovsky developed a number of practical applications as far as the probability theory is concerned, publishing his research articles in the Russian magazines Sovremennik and Zhurnal Ministerstava Narodnogo Prosvesheniya.

Viktor Bunyakovsky made a significant scientific contribution to the problem of the naval department pension fund creation, publishing his research articles in Morskoi Sbornik magazine in 1858.

Viktor Bunyakovsky formulated an empirical law of deaths in 1869, making it possible to solve the problems on the calculation of both capital insurance and life-time incomes in finances.