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Virginia S. Kiryakova (née Virdzhinia Stoinova Hristova) is a Bulgarian mathematician known for her work on the fractional calculus, on special functions in fractional calculus including the Mittag-Leffler functions, and on the
history of calculus Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus, is a mathematical discipline focused on limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. Many elements of calculus appeared in ancient Greece, then in China and the Middle East, a ...
. She is a professor in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; bg, Българска академия на науките, ''Balgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated ''БАН'') is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy ...
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Education and career

As a high school student, Kiryakova competed for Bulgaria in the 1969 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a bronze medal. She graduated from Sofia University in 1975 with a combined bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics, and in the same year became a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. She earned a Ph.D. in 1987, with the thesis ''Generalized Operators of Integration and Differentiation of Fractional Order and Applications'', and completed a Dr.Sc. (
habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
) in 2010, with the thesis ''Generalized Fractional Calculus and Applications in Analysis'', supervised by Ivan Dimovski. She is editor-in-chief of the journals '' Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis'' and ''International Journal of Applied Mathematics''.


Selected publications

Kiryakova is the author of the research monograph ''Generalized Fractional Calculus and Applications'' (1993). She has also coauthored highly cited work on the
history of calculus Calculus, originally called infinitesimal calculus, is a mathematical discipline focused on limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. Many elements of calculus appeared in ancient Greece, then in China and the Middle East, a ...
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Recognition

Kiryakova won the 1996 Academic Prize for Mathematical Sciences of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2012, at the 5th Symposium on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, she was given the FDA Dissemination Award, for her "dissemination of fractional calculus among the scientific community, industry and society" over the previous five years.


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