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Konstantin Posse

Russian mathematician (1847-1928)

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Source revisionSep 1, 2026
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Konstantin Alexandrovich Posse (Russian: Константин Александрович Поссе; September 29, 1847 – August 24, 1928) was a Russian mathematician known for contributions to analysis and in particular approximation theory. Veniamin Kagan and D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi were among his students.

Selected publications

Possé, C. (1885). "Quelques remarques sur une certaine question de minimum". Mathematische Annalen. 26 (4): 593–596. doi:10.1007/BF01444256. ISSN 0025-5831. JFM 18.0325.01. S2CID 122505974.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Konstantin Posse” is russian mathematician (1847-1928). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Konstantin, Posse and Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Konstantin Posse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.