Benjamin Kagan
Veniamin Kagan | |
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| Born | Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan 9 March 1869 Shavli, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 8 May 1953 (aged 84) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Imperial Novorossiya University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Markov Konstantin Posse |
| Doctoral students | Viktor Wagner Isaak Yaglom |
Veniamin Fyodorovich Kagan (Russian: Вениами́н Фёдорович Ка́ган; 9 March 1869 – 8 May 1953) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician and expert in non-Euclidean geometry. He is the maternal grandfather of mathematicians Yakov Sinai and Grigory Barenblatt.