Were Pavel Alexandrov and Yuri Matiyasevich both working in the same area of mathematics?
Pavel Alexandrov Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров ), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff or Aleksandrov (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology.
Yury Osipov Yury Sergeyevich Osipov (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич О́сипов ; born 7 July 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1987 and has been president of its successor, the Russian Academy of Sciences, since 17 December 1991.