Gennady Alexeyevich Leonov (russian: Геннадий Алексеевич Леонов; February 2, 1947Russian Academy of Sciences
(in Russian) in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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– April 23, 2018) was a Russian scientist, Correspondent Member of the

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(since 2006), Professor at the

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. Laureate of the 1986

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and 2012

Aleksandr Andronov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Андро́нов; , Moscow – October 31, 1952, Gorky) was a Soviet physicist and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1946). He worked exten ...

Russian Academy of Sciences Prize. He graduated from the

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in 1969. In 1971 he defended his

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's Dissertation. In 1983 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1986 he received the title of Professor. Since 1988, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Saint Petersburg State University. He was a foreign member of the

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(2017).Official Saint Petersburg State University
(in Russian)

References

Obituaries

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N.V. Kuznetsov, S. Abramovich, A.L. Fradkov, G. Chen, In Memoriam: Gennady Alekseevich Leonov, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 28(5), 2018, art. num. 1877001

S. Abramovich, N.V. Kuznetsov, P. Neittaanmäki, Obituary: Gennady Alekseevich Leonov (1947-2018), Open Mathematical Education Notes, 8(1), 2018, 15-21
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