Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a scientist under the Russian Empire — mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- September 12, 1801, September 24, 1801
- Died
- December 20, 1861, January 1, 1862
