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Ukrainian Mathematicians
This a list of the best known Ukrainian mathematicians. This list includes some Polish, pre-revolutionary Russian and Soviet mathematicians who lived or worked in Ukraine. __NOTOC__ {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=yes A * Akhiezer, Naum Ilyich (1901–1980) B * Bernstein, Sergei Natanovich (1880–1968) * Borok, Valentina Mikhailovna (1931–2004) * Berlyand, Leonid Viktorovich (b. 1957) D * Dorohovtsev, Anatoliy Yakovych (1935–2004) * Drinfeld, Volodymyr Gershonovych (b. 1954) E * Eremenko, Oleksandr Emmanuilovich (b. 1954) G * Geronimus, Yakov Lazarevich (1898–1984) * Glushkov, Victor Mihailovich (1923–1982) * Goldberg, Anatolii Asirovich (1930–2008) * Grave, Dmytro Olexandrovych (1863–1939) K * Kadets, Mikhail Iosiphovich (1923–2011) * Korolyuk, Volodymyr Semenovych (1925–2020) * Kovalenko, Ihor Mykolayovych (b. 1935) * Kondratiev, Yuri (b. 1953) * Koshmanenko, Volodymyr Dmytrovych (b. 1943) * Kravchuk, Myhailo Pylypovych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Korolyuk
Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk ( uk, Володимир Семенович Королюк, 19 August 1925 – 4 April 2020) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its applications, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1976). Korolyuk was born in Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ... in August 1925. Between 1949 and 2005 Volodymyr Korolyuk published over 300 papers and 22 monographs. He died in Kyiv in April 2020 at the age of 94. Awards and honors Volodymyr Korolyuk has been awarded a number of scientific prizes. * Krylov Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1976 * State Prize of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1978 * Glushkov Prize of the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer
Georgy Pfeiffer also Yurii or Yury Pfeiffer (russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Пфе́йффер, german: Georg Ferdinand Pfeiffer, 23 December 1872, Sokirincy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 10 October 1946 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) was a Russian Imperial and Soviet mathematician of German origin. Pfeiffer was known as a specialist in the field of integration of differential equations and systems of partial differential equations. He was also interested in algebraic geometry. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1908 at Rome, in 1928 at Bologna,Pfeiffer, G. "Sur le produits des groupes d'espèce speciale des formes de Pfaff." In ''Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928'', vol. 3, pp. 49–54. 1929. and in 1932 at Zurich. He was a chairman of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kiev, Russian Empire. Pfeiffer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Andreevich Pastur
Leonid Andreevich Pastur ( uk, Леонід Андрійович Пастур, russian: Леонид Андреевич Пастур) (born 21 August 1937) is a Ukrainian mathematical physicist and theoretical physicist, known in particular for contributions to random matrix theory, the spectral theory of random Schrödinger operators, statistical mechanics, and solid state physics (especially, the theory of disordered systems). Currently, he heads the Department of Theoretical Physics at the B Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering. Work * In random matrix theory: together with Vladimir Marchenko, he discovered the Marchenko–Pastur law. Later, he devised a more general approach to study random matrices with independent entries in the global regime. Together with Mariya Shcherbina, he found the first rigorous proof of universality for invariant matrix ensembles. * In the spectral theory of random Schrödinger operators, he introduced the class o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Naimark
Mark Aronovich Naimark (russian: Марк Ароно́вич Наймарк) (5 December 1909 – 30 December 1978) was a Soviet mathematician who made important contributions to functional analysis and mathematical physics. Life Naimark was born on 5 December 1909 in Odessa, part of modern-day Ukraine, but which was then part of the Russian Empire. His family was Jewish, his father Aron Iakovlevich Naimark a professional artist, and his mother Zefir Moiseevna. He was four years old at the onset of World War I in 1914, and seven when the tumultuous Russian Revolution began in 1917. Showing an early talent for mathematics, Naimark enrolled in a technical college at the age of fifteen in 1924 soon after the Russian Civil War had ended. There he studied while working at a foundry until enrolling in the Physics and Mathematics faculty at Odessa Institute of National Education in 1929. He married his wife Larisa Petrovna Shcherbakova in 1932, with whom he had two sons. In 1933, Naim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryna Viazovska
Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska ( uk, Марина Сергіївна Вязовська, ; born 2 December 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. Education and career Viazovska was born in Kyiv, the oldest of three sisters. Her father was a chemist who worked at the Antonov aircraft factory and her mother an engineer. She attended a specialized secondary school for high-achieving students in science and technology, Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum No. 145. An influential teacher there, Andrii Knyazyuk, had previously worked as a professional research mathematician before becoming a secondary school teacher. Viazovska competed in domestic mathematics Olympiads when she was at high school, placing 13th in a national competition where 12 students were selected to a tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yurii Mitropolskiy
Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskiy ( uk, Юрій Олексійович Митропольський; 3 January 1917 – 14 June 2008) was a renowned Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician known for his contributions to the fields of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations. He was born in Poltava Governorate and died in Kyiv. He received his Ph.D. from Kyiv University, under the supervision of theoretical physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogolyubov. Mitropolskiy is one of the most frequently joint-published mathematicians known, with at least 240 collaborators. Mitropolskiy was a member of Communist Party of USSR since 1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, .... Eponym * Krylov–Bogoliubov–Mitropolskiy asymptotic method Selected works * N. N. Bogoliubov and Y. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Mikhalevich
Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukrainian version of the name * Włodzimierz (given name) for the Polish version of the name * Valdemar for the Germanic version of the name * Wladimir for an alternative spelling of the name Places * Vladimir, Russia, a city in Russia * Vladimir Oblast, a federal subject of Russia * Vladimir-Suzdal, a medieval principality * Vladimir, Ulcinj, a village in Ulcinj Municipality, Montenegro * Vladimir, Gorj, a commune in Gorj County, Romania * Vladimir, a village in Goiești Commune, Dolj County, Romania * Vladimir (river), a tributary of the Gilort in Gorj County, Romania * Volodymyr (city), a city in Ukraine Religious leaders * Metropolitan Vladimir (other), multiple * Jovan Vladimir (d. 1016), ruler of Doclea and a saint of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Marchenko
Vladimir Alexandrovich Marchenko (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Ма́рченко, uk, Володи́мир Олекса́ндрович Ма́рченко; born 7 July 1922) is a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who specializes in mathematical physics. Biography Vladimir Marchenko was born in Kharkiv in 1922. He defended his PhD thesis in 1948 under the supervision of Naum Landkof, and in 1951 he defended his DSc thesis. He worked in Kharkiv University until 1961. For 4 decades, he headed the Mathematical Physics Department at the B Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1962, the N. N. Krylov Prize in 1980, the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in 1989, and the N. N. Bogolyubov prize in 1996. Since 1969 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 1987 of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 2001 of the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov
Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov (russian: Никола́й Митрофа́нович Крыло́в, uk, Микола Митрофанович Крилов) ( – May 11, 1955) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics. Biography Nikolay Krylov graduated from St. Petersburg State Mining Institute in 1902. In the period from 1912 until 1917, he held the Professor position in this institute. In 1917, he went to the Crimea to become Professor at the Crimea University. He worked there until 1922 and then moved to Kyiv to become chairman of the mathematical physics department at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Nikolay Krylov was a member of the Société Mathématique de France and the American Mathematical Society. Research Nikolay Krylov developed new methods for analysis of equations of mathematical physics, which can be used not only for proving the existence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Krein
Mark Grigorievich Krein ( uk, Марко́ Григо́рович Крейн, russian: Марк Григо́рьевич Крейн; 3 April 1907 – 17 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics), the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory. He was born in Kyiv, leaving home at age 17 to go to Odessa. He had a difficult academic career, not completing his first degree and constantly being troubled by anti-Semitic discrimination. His supervisor was Nikolai Chebotaryov. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1982 (jointly with Hassler Whitney), but was not allowed to attend the ceremony. David Milman, Mark Naimark, Israel Gohberg, Vadym Adamyan, Mikhail Livsic and other known mathematicians were his students. He died in Odessa. On 14 January 2008, the memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kravchuk
Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk, also Krawtchouk ( uk, Миха́йло Пили́пович Кравчу́к) (September 27, 1892 – March 9, 1942), was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician and the author of around 180 articles on mathematics. He primarily wrote papers on differential equations and integral equations, studying both their theory and applications. His two-volume monograph on the solution of linear differential and integral equations by the method of moments was translated 1938–1942 by John Vincent Atanasoff who found this work useful in his computer-project ( Atanasoff–Berry computer). His student Klavdiya Latysheva was the first Ukrainian woman to obtain a doctorate in the mathematical and physical sciences (1936). Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. His course listeners included Sergey Korolev, Arkhip Lyulka, and Vladimir Chelomei, future leading rocket and jet engine designers. Kravchuk was arrested by the Soviet secret police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
