Nikolai Luzin Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin (Никола́й Никола́евич Лу́зин) (December 9,1883 - January 28,1950), Russian mathematician. He was noted for his work in descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. He was the eponym of Luzitania, a loose grouping of young Moscow mathematicians in the first half of the 1920s. They adopted his set-theoretic orientation, and went on to apply it in other areas of mathematics, in some cases (such as Kolmogorov's) with the highest distinction.He started studying mathematics in 1901 at Moscow University, earning his Ph.D. in 1901. His advisor was Dimitri Egorov.
During the civil war in Russia (1918 - 1920) he left Moscow for the Polytechnical Institute Ivanovo-Voznesensk, but returned to Moscow in 1920.
in 1936 Luzin became the victim of a political campaign, most likely directed by Stalin himself. He was accused of publishing his best work in foreign journals and only printing minor work and "nonsense" in soviet papers. During this campaign most soviet scientists stopped sending papers abroad so they would not be branded "unpatriotic."
A crater on Mars was named in his honor.