Boris Mordukhovich is an

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recognized for his research in the areas of

nonlinear analysis Nonlinear functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis that deals with nonlinear mappings. Topics Its subject matter includes: * generalizations of calculus to Banach spaces * implicit function theorems * fixed-point theorems (Br ...

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

, and

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

. Mordukhovich is one of the founders of modern

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and generalized differentiation. Currently he is Distinguished University Professor and Lifetime Scholar of the Academy of Scholars at

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(Vice President, 2009–2010 and President, 2010–2011).

Life and works

Mordukhovich was born and educated in the

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; he immigrated to the United States with his family in December 1988. He developed constructions of generalized differentiation (bearing now his name), and their development and applications to classes of problems in variational analysis, optimization, equilibrium, control, economics, engineering, and other fields. His theory and various applications have been summarized in the 2-volume monograph, and in the recent book. Mordukhovich has published around 500 journal papers. Mordukhovich is an AMS Fellow of the Inaugural Class, a SIAM Fellow, and a recipient of many international awards and honors, including Dr. Honoris Causa from the

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, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania and from

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. He is the Founding Editor (2008) and was a co-Editor-in-Chief (2009-2014) of
Set-Valued and Variational Analysis
'' an international journal. Since 2016, he is a co-Editor-in-Chief, Applied Analysis and Optimization, and since 2021 he is the area editor of Journal of Optimization Theory and Application. He was Chair (2012 - 2015) of the International Working Group on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity. In 2016, he was elected to the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti (Italy), and in 2021 he became a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is in the list of Highly Cited Researchers in Mathematics.

External links

Boris Mordukhovich's Home Page

References

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