Revaz Valerianovic Gamkrelidze ( ka, რევაზ ვალერის ძე გამყრელიძე, ISO 9984: ''Revaz Valeris je Gamqrelije''; born February 4, 1927) is a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

and

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

known for his work in

optimal control theory Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

and related fields. Gamkrelidze is a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and a member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. He is the founding editor of Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences. Revaz Gamkrelidze is the brother of the linguist

Tamaz Gamkrelidze Tamaz (Thomas) Valerianis dze Gamkrelidze (Georgian: თამაზ ვალერიანის ძე გამყრელიძე, 23 October 1929 – 10 February 2021) was a Georgian linguist, orientalist public benefactor and Hittitol ...

Life

After secondary school, Gamkrelidze attended

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

.''Guram Kharatishvili, Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, "Revaz Gamkrelidze is 70",Razmadze Mathematical Institute,19973-7,11'

/ref> In his sophomore year, he went to Moscow to study at the mechanics and mathematics faculty of the

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 ...

where he became a student of

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 ...

Work

At Moscow State University he initially worked in the fields of algebraic geometry and topology and derived what is now known as Gamkrelidze's formula .''Computation of Chern cycles of Algebraic Manifolds. (Russian). Dokl. Nauk. SSSR 90(1953), No.4 719-722'' In 1954 he began his work on optimal control. He wrote ''Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes'' with

, Boltyanskii and Mishchenko. This work was awarded the State Lenin Prize for Science and Technology in 1962. Gamkrelidze is the founding editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences.

Books

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Notes

References

External links

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Revaz Gamkrelidze at Mathnet.ru

Revaz Gamkrelidze's CV at the Georgian Academy of Sciences website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gamkrelidze, Revaz 1927 births Living people 20th-century mathematicians from Georgia (country) Soviet mathematicians Lenin Prize winners Tbilisi State University alumni Moscow State University alumni People from Kutaisi