Deaths on October 15

Mikhail Lavrentyev

Died on October 15, 1980

Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)

Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (or Lavrentiev, Russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Лавре́нтьев) (November 19, 1900 – October 15, 1980) was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.

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Deaths on October 15

Mikhail Lavrentyev

Died on October 15, 1980

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