Boris Bukreyev (09/06/1859, L'gov, Kursk Province - 10.02.1962, Kyiv) - an outstanding mathematician; Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Professor of the University of Kiev and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, founder and active leader of the Kiev Mathematical Society, member of the Moscow Mathematical Society.
Boris Bukreyev - the oldest professor among Kiev mathematicians. His teaching activities lasted over 75 years. Honored Worker of Science, he worked in Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1898-1930, Head of the Department of Mathematics (1922- 1930). In 1882 he graduated from Kyiv University. He defended Master's thesis in 1887, his doctorate - in 1889. He was one of the first in Ukraine successors and popularizers ideas of hyperbolic geometry M Lobachevsky, the founder of the Kiev geometry school. He investigated problems of differential geometry, the theory of series, calculus of variations, made a significant contribution to the history of mathematics, published essays on the life and work of VP Ermakov, MG Vashenko-Wise, G. Monge et al. He was one of the founding members of the Kiev Physical-Mathematical Society.
He was awarded orders Lenin and Labor Red Bunner.
He authored 15 monographs and about 100 scientific papers. His main works are "The course of the use of differential and integral calculus to geometry elements of the theory of surfaces" (1900), "Introduction to the calculus of variations" (1930), "Non-Euclidean planimetry in an analytical exposition" (1947).