Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman or Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet cosmologist and mathematician. He discovered the expanding-universe solution to the general relativity field equations in 1922, which was corroborated by Edwin Hubble's observations in 1929. Friedman's 1924 papers, including "On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space" published by the German physics journal Zeitschrift für Physik, demonstrated that he had command of all three Friedman models describing positive, zero and negative curvature respectively, a decade before Robertson and Walker published their analysis. This dynamic cosmological model of general relativity would come to form the standard for the Big Bang and steady state theories. Friedman's work supports both theories equally, so it was not until the detection of the cosmic microwave background radiation that the steady state theory was abandoned in favor of the current favorite Big Bang paradigm.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... _Friedmann View • Books • Images • Videos • Search Related • Mathematicians • Scientists • 1920s • Astronomy • Cosmology • Gemini • June 16 • Mathematics • Physics • Russia (Europe) • St.Petersburg • People