Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1910

Place of Birth: Koshki, Russia

Date of Death: 09-May-1972

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov (Russian: ??????´? ????´?????? ?????´?; 28 October (15 October, Old Style) 1910, Koshki, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire – 9 May 1972, Kiev, Soviet Union) was a mathematician noted for his work on the classification of Einstein spaces, today called Petrov classification. The Petrov classification is related with the Weyl tensor and it was first published by A.
Z.
Petrov in 1954.