Mykhailo Kravchuk (1892 - 1942) is a world-renowned Ukrainian mathematician, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, a member of many foreign mathematical societies. He was a professor at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He considered his versatile scientific activity as a patriotic matter, as a civic matter. "My love is Ukraine and mathematics," M. Kravchuk liked to emphasize. In 1938, the academician was arrested by the employees of the NKVD of the USSR on the denunciation of a colleague. The scientist was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 5 years of exile. He died in Kolyma in the Far East of Russia. Mykhailo Kravchuk is the author of about 180 scientific works belonging to such branches of mathematics as algebra, number theory, theory of functions, permutation matrices, algebraic, transcendental, differential and integral equations, polynomials related to the binomial distribution, mathematical statistics, theor . Kravchuk devoted himself to the history of mathematics, the popularization of science, and was one of the developers of Ukrainian mathematical terminology. During the creation of the first computer, John Vincent Atanasov used Kravchuk's research work. Only in 2001, his works were used in America in 15 scientific articles. Kravchuk's student, designer Serhii Korolev became a world-renowned scientist. Already in the 21st century, UNESCO included Mykhailo Kravchuk's name in the list of the most outstanding persons.
A memorial plaque to Mykhailo Kravchuk was installed on the facade of Building No. 1 of the National Aviation University, where the mathematician worked. It was unveiled on October 10, 2011.
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