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.
Albert Shiryaev Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (Russian: Альбе́рт Никола́евич Ширя́ев ; born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.