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Finally, the trajectory of [[Mathematician#VBernstein|Vladimir Bernstein]] (1900 - 1936) constitutes another singular case,
described in detail in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Finzi Finzi] (1936).
Born in 1900 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg Saint Petersburg], Bernstein entered the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_State_University local university] when he was 17 to specialize in mathematics and became close to [[Mathematician#JVUspensky|Yakov Viktorovich Uspensky]] (1883 - 1947).
Taking advantage of the proximity of the border, he decided to emigrate during the winter of 1919 by reaching [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyborg Vyborg] on the other side of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Finland Gulf of Finland]. Unfortunately, he was seriously wounded by bullet before arriving there, and he never fully recovered from this injury that led to his premature death in 1936.
Arrived in France in the mid-1920s after a stay in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London], he entered the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] and in 1930 defended a Ph.D. on the singularities of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_series Dirichlet series], dedicated to ‘his master [[Mathematician#PMontel|Paul Montel]]’.
