Anton Sushkevich

Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich (Антон Казимирович Сушкевич) (23 January 1889, Borisoglebsk, Russia — 30 August 1961, Kharkiv, Ukraine) was a Russian mathematician and textbook author who expanded group theory to include semigroups and other magmas.

Moving to Kharkiv, Suskevich taught in secondary education while he pursued a graduate degree at Kharkov State University.

In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics was established in 1929 with Sushkevich as a member.

At that time Stalin caused a famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor, killing millions especially in rural areas.

According to biographer Hollings, "He sought to describe his semigroups of interest in terms of certain of their subgroups: from Sushkevich's point of view, groups were objects of known structure.