Russian mathematician, member and later vice president of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1804-1889). Autograph letter signed. no place. 4to. 1 p. Folded. Some paper loss to the left border as well as to the bottom of the letter, hardly affecting the writing. Some stains to the lower end of the border also affecting the signature. Folded.
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To the mathematian Konstantin Alekseevich Andreev: „[…] In your obligatory letter dated February 16, you inform me that the members of the Kharkov Mathematical Society have unanimously expressed their desire to honor me with the title of its Honorary Member. With sincere gratitude for this flattering sign of attention, highly valued by me, I turn to you, Gracious Sovereign, with the most humble request to accept from me and convey my most lively gratitude both to the gentlemen of the Members of the Administrative Committee, and to all other members who participated in my election.
[…]“ Bunyakovsky was a mathematician, noted for his work in theoretical mechanics and number theory (see: Bunyakovsky conjecture), and is credited with an early discovery of the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, proving it for the infinite dimensional case as well as for definite integrals of real-valued functions in 1859, many years prior to Hermann Schwarz's works on the subject..