Skip to content
228,584 profiles ranked

Lev Pontryagin

Soviet mathematician (1908-1988) · Russia · On the map · Academics · Died at 79

Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.

Lev Pontryagin is read about 115 times a day, in 35 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 11 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 113 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

A life in dates

1988Died3 May 19881975Order of the October RevolutionAwardUSSR State PrizeAward1969Hero of Socialist LabourAward1966Lobachevsky PrizeAward1962Lenin PrizeAward1953Order of LeninAward1945Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1941Stalin PrizeAward1940Order of the Badge of HonourAward1908Born3 September 1908

People around Lev

Close ties

Also in Deutsch Français

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

USSR State Prize1975
Order of the October Revolution1975
Hero of Socialist Labour1969
Lobachevsky Prize1966
Lenin Prize1962
Order of Lenin1953
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1945
Stalin Prize1941
Order of the Badge of Honour1940
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1988 · aged 79

The same award as Lev

Sophus LieBoth received Lobachevsky PrizeVladimir FockBoth received Lobachevsky PrizeHermann WeylBoth received Lobachevsky PrizeVladimir ArnoldBoth received Lobachevsky PrizeAndrey KolmogorovBoth received Lobachevsky Prize