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.
Alexey Parshin Aleksei (or Alexei) Nikolaevich Parshin (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Паршин ; born 7 November 1942 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in number theory and algebraic geometry.