Boris Rufimovich Vainberg (russian: Бори́с Руфи́мович Ва́йнберг) is a professor of
mathematics
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at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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. He was born in 1938. He received his Dr.S. from
Moscow State University
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, under the supervision of
Samarii Galpern. He taught mathematics at Moscow State University for nearly 30 years,
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from his book with Kuznetsov and Maz'ya, ''Linear Water Waves'', Cambridge University Press, 2002. then held a visiting professor position at the
University of Delaware
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Univ. of Delaware. before taking his current position at UNCC.
His research concerns differential equation
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s, scattering theory
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, and spectral theory In mathematics, spectral theory is an inclusive term for theories extending the eigenvector and eigenvalue theory of a single square matrix to a much broader theory of the structure of operators in a variety of mathematical spaces. It is a result o ...
.Russian Mathematical Surveys
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(English)
Publications
Books
*Asymptotic Methods in Equations of Mathematical Physics, 1982 (in Russian).
*Asymptotic Methods in Equations of Mathematical Physics (revised and expanded English version), Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York--London, 1989
* Linear Water Waves: A Mathematical Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (with N. Kuznetsov and V. Maz'ya)
Book chapters
Large Time Asymptotic Expansion of the Solutions of Exterior Boundary Value Problems for Hyperbolic Equations and Quasiclassical Approximations, Chapter in "Partial Differential Equations, V", 1999, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, Series: Encyclopaedia of Math. Sciences.
Papers
He has written over 170 published papers.
References
External links
Dr. Vainberg's home page at UNCC
Soviet mathematicians
Living people
1938 births
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