Ivan Sokolnikoff
Ivan Stephan Sokolnikoff (* 1901 in Chernigov Province , Russian Empire ; † 1976 ) was a Russian -born American mathematician who specialized in elasticity theory and who wrote several previously popular mathematics textbooks for engineers and physicists.
Life
Sokolnikoff went to the classical Anders high school in Kiev . During the Russian Revolution he served as a naval officer on the side of the tsarist supporters and was wounded in the Kuril Islands . Via China, where he worked for an American electrical company, he came to Seattle and studied electrical engineering at the University of Idaho from 1922 (graduated in 1926). He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1930 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with Herman William March ( On a Solution of Laplace's Equation with an Application to the Torsion Problem for a Polygon with Reentrant Angles ). Sokolnikoff stayed at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a full professorship in 1941. After visiting professorships at Brown University , he became a professor at UCLA in 1946 , where he was retired in 1965. In 1952/53 he received a Guggenheim scholarship at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London and the University of Brussels , and in 1959/60 he was (also with a Guggenheim scholarship) at the ETH Zurich . In 1962/63 he was visiting professor at the Technical University in Ankara with a Fulbright scholarship .
Sokolnikoff was married twice, the first time from 1931 to Elizabeth Stafford , from whom he was divorced, the second time to Ruth Lawyer, with whom he had a daughter.
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In addition to his work on elasticity theory in the USA, Sokolnikoff is best known as the author of textbooks for mathematics for physicists and engineers, where he played a pioneering role. His elastic theory textbook was also the leading textbook in the United States for a long time. During World War II, he received a Presidential Citation for his work on fire control systems .
He was editor of the Quarterly Journal of Applied Mathematics and the John Wiley Series in Applied Mathematics at Wiley. From 1945 to 1947 he was on the council of the American Mathematical Society and then until 1950 on the board of directors of the Mathematical Association of America .
Fonts
- with Elizabeth Stafford (Elizabeth Sokolnikoff): Higher Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists , McGraw Hill, 1934, 2nd edition 1941, online here at archive.org
- with Raymond Redheffer : Mathematics of physics and modern engineering , McGraw Hill 1958, 2nd edition 1966
- The Mathematical Theory of Elasticity , McGraw Hill, 1946, 2nd edition 1956
- Tensor Analysis - theory and applications to geometry and mechanics of continua , Wiley 1951, 2nd edition 1964
- Advanced Calculus , McGraw Hill 1939
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sokolnikoff, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sokolnikoff, Ivan Stephan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |