Yuri Ivanovich Zhuravlyov (russian: Юрий Иванович Журавлёв; 14 January 1935 – 14 January 2022) was a Soviet and Russian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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specializing in the algebraic theory of algorithms. His research in applied mathematics and computer science was foundational for a number of specialties within discrete mathematics, pattern recognition, and predictive analysis. Zhuravlyov was a full member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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and the chairman of its "Applied Mathematics and Informatics" section. He was also the
editor-in-chief
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of the international journal ''
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis''.
Biography
Zhuravlyov was born on 14 January 1935 in
Voronezh
Voronezh ( rus, links=no, Воро́неж, p=vɐˈronʲɪʂ}) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the ...
in the former
Soviet Union
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. In 1952, after finishing high school, he applied and was accepted into the Mathematics Department at
Moscow State 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 ...
. Under the direction of
Alexey Lyapunov
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov (russian: Алексе́й Андре́евич Ляпуно́в; 25 September 1911 – 23 June 1973) was a Soviet mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. One of the founders of Soviet cybernetic ...
, he completed his first serious work on the minimization of partially defined
boolean function
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s. The work was published in 1955 and awarded first prize at the All-Soviet student research competition.
In 1957, Zhuravlyov completed his master's thesis on a solution to the problem of finding words in a finite set with consideration for its construction. In 1959, he completed his doctoral work which involved a proof for lack of local unsolvability for constructing the minimal disjunctive normal form.
In 1959, he moved to
Novosibirsk
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, where he pursued government-sponsored research and taught algebra and mathematical logic at the Novosibirsk University. In 1966, he began research into pattern recognition. His first serious work in this field related to the identification of deposits in the area of gold mining. He then developed a model of algorithms for calculating estimates that became foundational for numerous subsequent research and works in the field.
In 1969, Zhuravlyov moved to Moscow to head the Pattern Recognition Lab at the Central Soviet Computing Center. In 1970, he also joined the faculty of the
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 ...
as a full professor.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Zhuravlyov published a series of seminal works in applied mathematics and informatics. In 1991, he founded the journal ''Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis''. In 1992, he was invited to join the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997, he became a professor at Moscow State University.
Zhuravlyov died in Moscow on 14 January 2022, on his 87th birthday.
Юрий Иванович Журавлев (14.01.1935 – 14.01.2022)
References
External links
Maik journal page
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Springer journal page
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1935 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
People from Voronezh
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Education
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University
Lenin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian mathematicians
Soviet mathematicians
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery