Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1894

Place of Birth: Samoylovsky District, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1919

Profession: mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (Russian: ?????´? ?´???????? ??´????; Krasavka, Saratov Oblast, November 15, 1894 – 21 October 1919, Krasavka) (sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets that was eventually found to be independent of the standard system of set-theoretic axioms, ZFC. He contributed greatly to the theory of analytic sets, sometimes called after him, a kind of a set of reals that is definable via trees.
In fact, while he was a research student of Nikolai Luzin (in 1917) he found an error in an argument of Lebesgue, who believed he had proved that for any Borel set in R 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{2}} , the projection onto the real axis was also a Borel set. Suslin died of typhus in the 1919 Moscow epidemic following the Russian Civil War.