Yan Shpil'rein
1887–1938 (age 51)
Biography
Yan Shpil'rein was a Russian mathematician born in 1887 who made contributions to mathematical science and education in the Soviet Union. He was active in academic circles during the 1920s and 1930s.
Shpil'rein was executed in 1938 at the Kommunarka shooting ground during the Great Purge, one of many accomplished scholars whose intellectual contributions and lives were lost to the era's systematic repressions.