Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev ( rus, Дми́трий Константи́нович Фадде́ев, , ˈdmʲitrʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ fɐˈdʲe(j)ɪf; 30 June 1907 – 20 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician.
Biography
Dmitry was born June 30, 1907, about 200 kilometers southwest of Moscow on his father's estate. His father Konstantin Tikhonovich Faddeev was an engineer while his mother was a doctor and appreciator of music who instilled the love for music in Dmitry. Friends found his
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...
playing entertaining.
In 1928 he graduated from
Petrograd State University, as it was then called. His teachers included
Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ( rus, Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, p=ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf, a=Ru-Ivan_Matveyevich_Vinogradov.ogg; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician ...
and
Boris Nicolaevich Delone. In 1930 he married
Vera Nicolaevna Zamyatina and in 1934 she gave birth to
Lyudvig Dmitrievich Faddeev who grew up to be a physicist.
Contributions
Dmitry and his wife co-authored ''Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra'' in 1960, followed by an enlarged edition in 1963. For instance, they developed an idea of
Urbain Leverrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using ...
to produce an algorithm to find the
resolvent matrix of a given matrix ''A''. By iteration, the method computed the
adjugate matrix
In linear algebra, the adjugate or classical adjoint of a square matrix is the transpose of its cofactor matrix and is denoted by . It is also occasionally known as adjunct matrix, or "adjoint", though the latter today normally refers to a differ ...
and
characteristic polynomial
In linear algebra, the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix is a polynomial which is invariant under matrix similarity and has the eigenvalues as roots. It has the determinant and the trace of the matrix among its coefficients. The ...
for A.
Dmitry was committed to
mathematics education
In contemporary education, mathematics education, known in Europe as the didactics or pedagogy of mathematics – is the practice of teaching, learning and carrying out scholarly research into the transfer of mathematical knowledge.
Although ...
and aware of the need for graded sets of
mathematical exercise
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s. With Iliya Samuilovich Sominskii he wrote ''Problems in Higher Algebra''.
He was one of the founders of the
Russian Mathematical Olympiads. He was one of the founders of the a
Physics-Mathematics secondary school later named after him.
See also
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Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm
In mathematics (linear algebra), the Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm is a recursive method to calculate the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial p_A(\lambda)=\det (\lambda I_n - A) of a square matrix, , named after Dmitry Konstantinovic ...
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1907 births
1989 deaths
20th-century Russian mathematicians
Algebraists
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg State University alumni