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= Lev Pontryagin
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Lev Pontryagin (1908-1988) was a prominent Soviet mathematician known for his contributions to various fields of mathematics, particularly in the areas of topology, optimal control, and differential equations. He is best known for developing Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, which is a fundamental result in optimal control theory that provides necessary conditions for optimality in control problems.