Pavel Aleksandrov was a Russian mathematician who made important contributions to general topology. He was born in Bogorodsk, also called Noginsk, in Russia on 7 May 1896 and died in Moscow on 16 November 1982. He built the Moscow school of topology together with Pavel Urysohn and developed the theory of compact spaces and the Alexandroff compactification. He is connected with Alexander duality, which he developed further together with Lev Pontryagin.
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