Sergey Degayev

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1857 – 1921

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Who was Sergey Degayev?

Sergey Petrovich Degayev was a Russian terrorist, an agent of the Okhrana, and the murderer of inspector of secret police Georgy Sudeykin. After emigrating to the United States, Degayev took the name, Alexander Pell, and became a prominent American mathematician, the founder of school of Engineering at the University of South Dakota. The Dr. Alexander Pell scholarship is named in his honor.

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Born
1857
Moscow
Profession
Education
  • Johns Hopkins University
Died
1921

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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