nLab Victor Bouniakowsky

Victor Bouniakowsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Буняко́вский) was a Russian mathematician.

He defended his PhD thesis in 1825 at Sorbonne supervised by Augustin Cauchy.

He is known for publishing a proof of the Cauchy inequality in 1859, also known as the Cauchy–Bouniakowsky–Schwarz inequality.

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