Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov

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Vladimir Smirnov (2nd from left) on a Russian commemorative coin (1999)

Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov ( Russian Владимир Иванович Смирнов ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov , born May 29 . Jul / 10. June  1887 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 11. February 1974 in Leningrad ) was a Russian-Soviet mathematician .

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Smirnov won a gold medal in mathematics while he was still in high school. His classmates were u. a. Alexander Friedmann and Tamarkin , with whom he was friends. He studied in St. Petersburg and graduated in 1910. His doctorate was on the problem of the inversion of linear differential equations with four singular points . Smirnov stayed on at the university to pursue an academic career. With friends he formed a study group in 1911/12 in which they studied the works of Édouard Goursat and Paul Appell on mechanics and analysis. From 1912 Smirnov taught at the Institute of Railway Engineering in St. Petersburg. In 1915 he became a professor in Saint Petersburg. From 1919 to 1922 he taught at the University of Simferopol in Ukraine. Then he returned to St. Petersburg, where in 1921 he founded the Chair of Higher Mathematics at the University's Faculty of Physics. In 1936 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) and became head of the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. He was also elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1953 he headed a Leningrad Mathematical Seminar, which was partly a replacement for the Leningrad Mathematical Society, which was dissolved for political reasons in the late 1920s and was re-established in 1959 thanks to Smirnov's efforts.

His five-volume course in higher mathematics is a standard work for engineers and physicists. He originally wrote the first volume with Tamarkin. It has been translated into German, English, French and Chinese, among others.

Most recently he wrote a history of mathematics in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). As he himself said, this gave him a lot of pleasure and everything would have been logical and clear until he had started his own dissertation - then he would not have understood anything. He also edited the works of Chebyshev , Lyapunov and others.

Smirnov was universally educated and an excellent piano player, who also gave concerts at the university. Most recently he lived in his dacha in Komarowo on the Gulf of Finland .

Fonts

  • Higher Mathematics Course. 5 parts in 7 sub-volumes (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 1–7). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1953 to 1962 and later editions, Harri Deutsch 1994 (in seven volumes)
    • Volume I: Functional dependence and theory of limit values, derivative and integral, series, functions of several variables, complex numbers
    • Volume II: Ordinary Differential Equations. Multiple integrals, curve integrals, improper integrals. Vector analysis. Differential geometry. Fourier series. Partial differential equations.
    • Volume III / 1: Determinants. Systems of equations. Linear transformations, square shapes. Group theory. Representations.
    • Volume III / 2: Function Theory. Compliant mapping. Functions of several variables. Linear differential equations. Special functions.
    • Volume IV / 1 and Volume IV / 2: Integral equations. Calculus of variations. Partial differential equations. Boundary value problems.
    • Volume V: Stieltjesches Integral. Lebesgue integral. Generalization of the concept of integral. Hilbert room.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janouch, obituary in Physical leaves 1974
personal data
SURNAME Smirnov, Vladimir Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Смирнов, Владимир Иванович (Russian); Smirnov, Vladimir Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1974
Place of death Leningrad