Evgenii Georgievich Dyakonov () (July 2, 1935 – August 11, 2006) was a Russian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

. Dyakonov was a Ph.D. student of Sergei Sobolev. He worked at the

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

. He authored over hundred papers and several books. Dyakonov was recognized for his pioneering work in the 60s–80s on efficient spectrally equivalent preconditioning for linear systems and

eigenvalue In linear algebra, an eigenvector ( ) or characteristic vector is a vector that has its direction unchanged (or reversed) by a given linear transformation. More precisely, an eigenvector \mathbf v of a linear transformation T is scaled by a ...

problems. In the last decade, strengthened

Sobolev space In mathematics, a Sobolev space is a vector space of functions equipped with a norm that is a combination of ''Lp''-norms of the function together with its derivatives up to a given order. The derivatives are understood in a suitable weak sense ...

s became Dyakonov's main topic of research, e.g., (Dyakonov, 2004).

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External links

Evgenii D'yakonov — scientific works on the website Math-Net.Ru
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obituary on NA Digest by Andrew Knyazev. Russian mathematicians Soviet mathematicians Numerical analysts Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University 1935 births 2006 deaths {{mathematician-stub