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2 Hryvni Mykhailo Kravchuk
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | At the top, the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine is flanked by a semicircular legend reading НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine). The central field features a segment of one of Mykhailo Kravchuk's mathematical formulae, within which his personal motto МОЯ ЛЮБОВ - УКРАЇНА І МАТЕМАТИКА (My love is Ukraine and mathematics) is inscribed. Below, the denomination ДВІ ГРИВНІ (Two Hryvnias) and the issue year 2012 appear, accompanied by the mint logo of the National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Mykhailo Kravchuk was one of the most consequential mathematicians produced by Ukraine in the twentieth century — and one of the most thoroughly erased. A pioneer in probability theory and algebra, he gave his name to the Kravchuk polynomials, which decades later found application in coding theory and quantum computing. The Soviet authorities arrested him in 1937 on fabricated charges of Ukrainian nationalism and sabotage, and he died in a Kolyma labor camp in 1942.
Ukraine has issued several commemorative coins honoring intellectuals suppressed under Stalin. Kravchuk's rehabilitation was formally recognized only posthumously, in 1992.