Ilia Wekua

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Ilia Wekua ( Georgian ილია ვეკუა ; Russian Илья Нестерович Ве́куа ; English transcription Ilia Vekua ; born April 23, 1907 in Schescheleti , Otschamtschira district , Abkhazia ; † December 2, 1977 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet - Georgian mathematician.

He was mainly concerned with partial differential equations , singular integral equations , generalized analytical functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells.

Life

Ilia Wekua was born in 1907 in the village of Schescheleti in what is now Abkhazia . He studied from 1925 at the State University of Tbilisi , where he graduated in 1930. Then he went to Leningrad to continue his studies with Alexei Krylov .

Tomb in the Pantheon on Mtatsminda in Tbilisi.

From 1933 he was again in Tbilisi with Nikolos Muschelishvili , where he received his doctorate as a candidate in 1937 and became a professor in 1940 after his habilitation (Russian doctorate). From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the theoretical department of the Geophysics Institute of the Georgian part of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1951 he was back in Moscow, where he was head of department at the Central Aerodynamics Institute in 1951/52, deputy head of the Institute for Precision Mechanics and Calculating Machines of the Academy of Sciences in 1952/53 and deputy director of the Steklow Institute from 1954 to 1959 . 1959 to 1964 he was the first rector of the Novosibirsk State University . He then returned to Tbilisi, where he became director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics in 1968, which is now named after him.

After his death he was buried on the Pantheon on Mtatsminda in Tbilisi.

Awards

1964/65 he was Vice President and 1972 to 1977 President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, of which he was a corresponding member since 1944, of which he was a full member from 1946 and of which he was secretary from 1947 to 1951. In 1946 he also became a corresponding and in 1958 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1969 he became a hero of socialist labor , in 1950 he received the Stalin Prize , 1963 the Lenin Prize , 1975 the Order of Lenin and 1984 the State Prize of the USSR . In 1968 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1969 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Halle and an honorary senator of the University of Jena . Since 1968 he was a corresponding and from 1969 a foreign member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1976 he became a foreign member of the Sicilian Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Compactness of families of solutions of elliptic differential equations ).

Fonts

  • Systems of differential equations of the first order of the elliptical type and boundary value problems with an application in the theory of shells , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1956
  • Generalized analytical functions , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1963 (Russian edition 1959, 2nd edition 1988, English edition Pergamon Press, Oxford 1962)
  • New methods for solving elliptic equations , North Holland 1967 (Russian edition 1948)
  • Shell theory: general methods of construction , Pitman, 1985

Web links

Commons : Ilya Vekua  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Ilia Wekua on the WarHeroes page. Retrieved July 21, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Wekua, Ilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Schescheleti , Abkhazia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1977
Place of death Tbilisi