Arif Salimov (A.A. Salimov, born 1956, az, Arif Səlimov) is an Azerbaijani/

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mathematician,

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, known for his research in

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. He earned his

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degree from

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, in 1978, a

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and

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(

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) degrees in geometry from

Kazan State University Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, tt-Cyrl, Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты) is a public research uni ...

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, in 1984 and 1998, respectively. His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii. Salimov is Full Professor and Head of the Department Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku State University. He is an author and co-author of more than 100 articles. He is also an author of 2 monographs. His primary areas of research are: * theory of

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s in

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s * geometrical applications of tensor operators * special

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, indefinite

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s * general geometric structures on manifolds ( almost complex, almost product, hypercomplex, Norden structures etc.)

References

External links

* http://mechmath.bsu.edu.az/en/content/algebra_and_geometry_514 Dep. of Algebra and Geometry * https://president.az/articles/34950 Living people 1956 births 20th-century Azerbaijani mathematicians Soviet mathematicians Differential geometers 21st-century Azerbaijani mathematicians Baku State University alumni Academic staff of Baku State University {{Azerbaijan-bio-stub