Russian mathematician.
Born January 18th, 1872 in Nizhny Novgorod.
Died March 13th, 1919 at 47 years old in Saint Petersburg (typhoid fever).
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde