Nikolai Bugaev

Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (Russian: Николай Васильевич Бугаев) (September 14, 1837 – June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Bugaev was born in Georgia, Russian Empire into a somewhat unstable family (his father was an army doctor), and at the age of ten young Nikolai was sent to Moscow to find his own means of obtaining an education. He succeeded, graduating in 1859 from Moscow University, where he majored in mathematics and physics. He went on to study engineering, but in 1863 wrote a Master's thesis on the convergence of infinite series. This document was sufficiently impressive to win him a place studying under Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Kummer in Berlin. He also spent some time in Paris...