Sava Grozdev ( bg, Сава Гроздев) (born July 13, 1950, in

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) is a

n mathematician and educator. He currently holds positions as Professor in

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

(Mathematical Analysis) and Professor in Mathematical Education.

Biography

Grozdev has PhD degree in mathematics (1980) and DSc degree in Pedagogical Sciences (2003). His teaching and research activities are in the field of Mathematics and Pedagogical Sciences. He has given courses in

Mathematical Analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...

, Analytical Mechanics, Generalized Functions, Operational

Calculus Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithm ...

, Content of Geometry, History of Mathematics,

Methodology In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

, Control and Stability of Mechanical Systems, Nonlinear Oscillations, and Chosen Chapters of Mathematics. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications, several books and handbooks, and more than 200 Olympic problems. Grozdev is most notable for his pedagogical work in mathematics education, both for students and for teachers. He has developed a mathematical model for high achievements in Mathematics. In 2003 Sava Grozdev was the leader of a group of teachers which took a prize in the International Competition of the American Organization “Best Practices in Education”. In the period 1994–2003 he was the scientific leader of the Bulgarian National Team in Mathematics. Under his leadership during Balkan and International Mathematical Olympiads the Bulgarian students won 59 medals out of 60 possible: 33 gold, 24 silver and 2 bronze. The highest achievement was in 2003 when Bulgaria became World Champion at the

International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except i ...

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. Sava Grozdev has been awarded with prestigious foreign and international prizes. In 2003 he received the Sign of Honour of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. He has been awarded with the Sign of Honour of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003), the Sign of Honour of Sofia Community (2003), the Jubilee Medal of the Latvian Mathematical Society (2004), the Honourable Professorship of the South-West University (2006), the medal “St. Cyril and Methodius” – 1st Degree (2007).

References

EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ARTICLE COMPETITION - THIRD PRIZE Professors Sava Grozdev, Ivan Derzhanski and Evgenia Sendova, Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, Sofia, Bulgaria. For the article For those who think mathematics dreary, published in the Bulgarian daily newspaper Dnevnik, 27 December 2001. The prize winning article by Grozdev, Derzhanski and Sendova can be found in Bulgarian and English at

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