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Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev

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Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev () was one of the most remarkable of Russian mathematicians. He completed the degree program at St Petersburg University. He was made privat docent for his essay On a question of least quantities and received a Master's degree in pure mathematics for the essay On an indeterminate equation of degree three.

In Zolotarev gave a proof based on the theory of elliptic functions, of Chebyshev's method, solving the problem of the integrability of certain algebraic differentials in finite form.

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In collaboration with Professor Korkin, Zolotarev undertook to find the exact limit for the minimum of a positive definite quadratic form. Their results appeared in three memoirs published in the journal Mathematische Annalen V , VI , XI This solved a difficult of problem - prior to the appearance of their memoirs, only the simplest cases were known, relating to binary and ternary forms.

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