Felix Ruvimovich Gantmacher (russian: Феликс Рувимович Гантмахер) (23 February 1908 – 16 May 1964) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

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, professor at

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares speciali ...

, well known for his contributions in mechanics,

linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as: :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as: :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrices ...

and Lie group theory. In 1925–1926 he participated in seminar guided by

Nikolai Chebotaryov Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (often spelled Chebotarov or Chebotarev, uk, Мико́ла Григо́рович Чеботарьо́в, russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Чеботарёв) ( – 2 July 1947) was a Ukrainia ...

in Odessa and wrote his first research paper in 1926. His book ''Theory of Matrices'' (1953) is a standard reference of linear algebra. It has been translated into various languages including a two-volume version in English prepared by

Joel Lee Brenner Joel Lee Brenner ( – ) was an American mathematician who specialized in matrix theory, linear algebra, and group theory. He is known as the translator of several popular Russian texts. He was a teaching professor at some dozen colleges and univ ...

, Donald W. Bushaw, and S. Evanusa.

George Herbert Weiss George H. Weiss (February 19, 1930 – February 14, 2017) was an American applied mathematician and physicist at the National Institutes of Health, known for his work on random walks. He did his undergraduate studies at the City College of Ne ...

noted that "this book cannot be recommended too highly as it contains material otherwise unavailable in book form". Gantmacher collaborated with

Mark Krein Mark Grigorievich Krein ( uk, Марко́ Григо́рович Крейн, russian: Марк Григо́рьевич Крейн; 3 April 1907 – 17 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of fu ...

on ''Oscillation Matrices and Kernels and Small Vibrations of Mechanical Systems''. In 1939 he contributed to the classification problem of the real Lie algebras. In the same year he wrote on automorphisms of

complex Lie group In geometry, a complex Lie group is a Lie group over the complex numbers; i.e., it is a complex-analytic manifold that is also a group in such a way G \times G \to G, (x, y) \mapsto x y^ is holomorphic. Basic examples are \operatorname_n(\mat ...

s. His son Vsevolod Gantmacher is a noted physicist.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gantmacher, Felix Ruvimovich 1908 births 1964 deaths Scientists from Odesa Soviet mathematicians Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Stalin Prize winners Ukrainian Jews Odesa Jews Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute employees K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni Academic staff of K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University