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People are generally associated with where you were born/grew up/attended uni, and unless he claimed to have thrown off all that, I think we can't move the goal posts. So I think the best you can do is "Swish scientist and mathematician while under decades Russian patronage" and not really Russian. I would accept it if he had forsaken his Swiss heritage or something of that sort, but he didn't. Maybe Swiss-Prussian-Russian mathematician?


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