Platon Poretsky

Russian mathematician (1846-1907).

Born October 15th, 1846 in Kropyvnytskyi.

Died August 22nd, 1907 at 60 years old in Zhovid.

Occupations
astronomer, mathematician, university teacher
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel