Biography:Boris Koyalovich

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Boris Mikhailovich Koyalovich (Koyalovitch, Kojalovich, Kojalowitsch, Kojałowicz) (May 2, 1867 – December 29, 1941) was a mathematician and chess master from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.

Biography

Koyalovich was born on May 2, 1867.[1] He was a professor of mathematics at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.[2][3] In 1924 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Toronto.[4] In 1930, he developed the special theory of limitants.[5]

Koyalovich lived and died in St. Petersburg (also known as Petrograd and Leningrad during his lifetime) on December 29, 1941.[6] He played in many of the city's chess tournaments, taking 4th place in 1901 (Sergey Lebedev won), 3rd in 1902 (Mikhail Chigorin and Alexander Levin won),[7] and 11th in 1903 (Grigory Helbach, Krzyzanowski and Emmanuel Schiffers won). In 1904 he competed at three events, tying for 4-5th in one (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky won), taking 5th in another (Chigorin won), and winning the third. He tied for 4-5th in 1905 (Chigorin won), tied for 8-9th in 1906 (Simon Alapin won), and tied for 5-6th in 1907 (Sergey von Freymann won).[8]

He played in a friendly match St. Petersburg vs. Moscow in 1911 (won a game against Parfenov on board 7),[9] and won a game against Alexander Alekhine in St. Petersburg in April 1912.[10]

After World War I, he tied for 5-9th at Petrograd 1921 (R.R. Platz won), took 6th at Novgorod 1923/24 (Ilya Rabinovich won), took 9th at Leningrad 1925 (Solomon Gotthilf won), and tied for 6-7th at Leningrad 1925 (Efim Bogoljubow and Peter Romanovsky won).[11]

Selected publications

  • Теория вероятностей. Лекции, читанные в СПБ ин-те в 1892-93 уч. (Probability theory. Lectures read at the St. Petersburg Institute in 1892-93 academic year.) году. СПБ, лит. Ф. Кремера, 1893
  • Исследования о дифференциальном уравнении ydy-ydx= Rdx. (Studies on the differential equation ydy-ydx = Rdx.) СПБ, тип. АН, 1894.
  • Лекции по аналитической геометрии (в пространстве). (Lectures on analytic geometry (in space).) СПБ, лит. А. Иконникова, 1895.
  • Лекции по математике (высшая алгебра), читанные на 1 курсе технол. (Lectures on mathematics (higher algebra), read at the 1st course of technology.) Ин-та проф. Б. М. Кояловичем в 1900-01 уч. Году. СПБ, лит. Я. Кровицкого, 1901.
  • Об одном уравнении с частными производными четвертого порядка. (On a fourth-order partial differential equation.) СПБ, тип. АН, 1902
  • Записки по дифференциальному исчислению. (Notes on differential calculus.) Курс. Доп. Кл. Константиновского арт. Училища. СПБ, лит. Константиновского арт. Училища, 1903.
  • Теория дифференциальных уравнений. (The theory of differential equations.) СПБ, изд. Мл. класса Академии, 1908
  • Интегральное исчисление. (Integral calculus.) СПБ, типо-лит. И. А. Трофимова, 1909.
  • Конспект курса аналитической механики. (Abstract course of analytical mechanics.) СПБ, типо-лит. И. А. Трофимова, 1909.
  • Аналитическая геометрия. (Analytic geometry.) Пб, Academia, 1922

References

  1. Черепица В. Н. Михаил Осипович Коялович. История жизни и творчества. — Grodno, 1998. — 327 p. (in Russian)
  2. "Szachiści". http://www.sternik.yoyo.pl/Szachisci.htm. 
  3. "Mathematischer Papyrus des Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau" (in de). 1931. http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf/b_struwe_1930.pdf. 
  4. Coialowitsch, B. M. (1924) " Sur les équations différentielles indéterminées" In Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress, Toronto, vol. 1, p. 685.
  5. "Journals | Royal Society". http://royalsocietypublishing.org. 
  6. Gaige, Jeremy (1987). Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography. McFarland. p. 226. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6. 
  7. "Shaw Communications". http://members.shaw.ca/edo2/players/p1963.html. 
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original. Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must also specify |archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf.  Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  9. Friendliesolimpbase.org
  10. "Chessmetrics site". http://www.chessmetrics.com. 
  11. "National tour". http://www.geocities.com/al2055km/nat_tour/1925/lening25.html.