Mykola Chaikovskyi

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Mykola Chaikovsky or Chaykovskyi (Ukrainian: Микола Андрійович Чайковський; 2 January 1887 – 7 October 1970) was a Ukrainian teacher, mathematician and writer. He is the author of By the Power of the Sun (1918), one of the first works of Ukrainian science fiction.

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Biography Chaikovsky was born in Berezhany, Galicia (at that time a part of Austria-Hungary), on 2 January 1887. He was the first son of lawyer and writer, Andrii Chaikovsky. From 1897 to 1905, Chaikovsky studied in the local gymnasium (the Berezhany Gymnasium). For two years, he attended the University of Prague, where he studied mechanics and philosophy. He then moved to the University of Vienna, also studying philosophy, although he was increasingly interested in mathematics. Chaikovsky received a PhD degree in 1911. In 1913 he became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. After 1910, Chaikovsky briefly worked in Ternopil at a Ukrainian school. He got married in 1912. Chaikovsky also briefly worked at the University of Berlin and at a school in Austria. In World War I, he was a translator and educator at a camp for Russian prisoners of war in Vienna; he also worked as a teacher at a real school in Rava-Ruska. Chaikovsky was involved with the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, and spent some time in Freistadt, Germany, from 1914 to 1918. After World War I, he became a teacher in Galicia (a Privatdozent at Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University). He also held…Citește mai mult

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Works Chaikovsky published his first article, an academic article on mathematics, in 1908. In 1915, he published a book on solar and lunar eclipses. He compiled a dictionary of mathematical terminology in Ukrainian (1924) and wrote other academic articles, as well as textbooks on mathematics. In 1931, he published the Ukrainian Scientific Mathematical Bibliography (1931). His bibliography includes a total of 193 scientific works in mathematics alone. Chaikovsky also wrote 51 articles for the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. As a scientist, his research concerned the topic of geometrization of school algebra. Chaikovsky wrote By the Power of the Sun (За силу сонця, Za syly sontsia) in 1918, considered one of the first works of Ukrainian science fiction, as well as one of the first Ukrainian-language works in science fiction. The book was published by the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society in Lviv (then Poland) seven years later. In the story, Chaikovsky imagined an independent Ukraine as a world pioneer in solar power, with spies from other countries trying to steal the valuable Ukrainian technology. The work is notable as one of the first works that describes the concept of a radiotelephone. As it was published in Poland, the novel did not became well…Citește mai mult

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Remembrance The Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada) declared 2 January 2017, as a celebration of the 130th anniversary of Chaikovsky's birth.