Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky (russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Болтя́нский; 26 April 1925 – 16 April 2019), also transliterated as Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, or Boltjansky, was a
Soviet and
Russian
mathematician,
educator
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and author of popular mathematical books and articles. He was best known for his books on
topology,
combinatorial geometry and
Hilbert's third problem.
Biography
Boltyansky was born in
Moscow. He served in the
Soviet army during
World War II, when he was a
signaller on the
2nd Belorussian Front
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. He graduated from
Moscow University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1948, where his advisor was
Lev Pontryagin
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин, also written Pontriagin or Pontrjagin) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight completely due ...
. He defended his "
Doktor nauk in physics and mathematics" (
higher doctorate) degree in 1955, became a professor in 1959.
Boltyansky was awarded the
Lenin Prize (for the work led by Pontryagin,
Revaz Gamkrelidze, and ) for applications of
differential equations
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to
optimal control
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, where he was one of the discoverers of the
maximum principle. In 1967 he received
Uzbek SSR prize for the work on
ordered rings. He taught at
CIMAT.
Faculty profile
CIMAT, Retrieved 2014-01-19.
He was the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education. He was the author of over 200 books and mathematical articles.
References
External links
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Boltyansky's biography
in Russian.
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1925 births
2019 deaths
Writers from Moscow
20th-century Russian mathematicians
Lenin Prize winners
Moscow State University alumni
Russian Jews
Russian science writers
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Education
Soviet Jews
Soviet mathematicians
Soviet military personnel of World War II