Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskiy ( uk, Юрій Олексійович Митропольський; 3 January 1917 – 14 June 2008) was a renowned

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and Ukrainian

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known for his contributions to the fields of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations. He was born in

Poltava Governorate The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a gubernia (also called a province or government) in t ...

and died in

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. He received his Ph.D. from

Kyiv University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

, under the supervision of theoretical physicist and mathematician

Nikolay Bogolyubov Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretic ...

. Mitropolskiy is one of the most frequently joint-published mathematicians known, with at least 240 collaborators. Mitropolskiy was a member of

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of USSR since

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Eponym

* Krylov–Bogoliubov–Mitropolskiy asymptotic method

Selected works

* N. N. Bogoliubov and Y. A. Mitropolski. ''Asymptotic methods in the theory of non-linear oscillations''. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1961 (translated from Russian). * N. N. Bogoljubov, Ju. A. Mitropoliskii, and A. M. Samoilenko. ''Methods of accelerated convergence in nonlinear mechanics''. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1976 (translated from Russian). *Yu. A. Mitropolaky and A. K. Lopatin. ''Nonlinear mechanics, groups and symmetry''. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. . *Yu. A. Mitropolʹskii. ''Problems of the asymptotic theory of nonstationary vibrations''. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1965. *Yu. A. Mitropolsky, A. M. Samoilenko, and D. I. Martinyuk. ''Systems of evolution equations with periodic and quasiperiodic coefficients''. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1993. . *''Integrable dynamical systems'' (coauthor).

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1917 births 2008 deaths Burials at Baikove Cemetery People from Poltava Oblast People from Mirgorodsky Uyezd Mathematical physicists 20th-century Ukrainian mathematicians Soviet mathematicians NASU Institute of Mathematics Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the title of Hero of Ukraine Recipients of the Order of State Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology {{europe-mathematician-stub