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unusual facts about Krylov



Aleksey Krylov

The crater Krylov on the Moon is named after him, as are the Krylov Peninsula and the Krylov State Research Center (a shipbuilding research institute of which Krylov had been superintendent).

Krylov also published the first Russian translation of Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1915).

Anna Krylov

In addition to her permanent appointment at USC, Prof. Krylov has served as a visiting professor at Caltech, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), University of Colorado (JILA), and Heidelberg University.

Apologue

La Fontaine in France; Gay and Dodsley in England; Gellert, Lessing and Hagedorn in Germany; Tomas de Iriarte in Spain, and Krylov in Russia, are leading modern writers of apologues.

Nicolai V. Krylov

Krylov studied at Lomonosov University, where he in 1966 under E. B. Dynkin attained a doctoral candidate title (similar to a PhD) and in 1973 a Russian doctoral degree (somewhat more prestigious than a PhD).


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