Yuri Mikhailovich Smirnov

Juri Michailowitsch Smirnow ( Russian Юрий Михайлович Смирнов ; born September 19, 1921 in Kaluga ; † September 3, 2007 ) was a Russian mathematician who mainly dealt with topology .

Following his inclination, Yuri Mikhailovich Smirnov began studying astronomy in 1939 at the Institute of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University (MSU) . In the urgent search for a source of income, he became an assistant at AN Kolmogorow , who recognized his mathematical talent and led him to mathematics.

After the war (autumn 1941 - end of the war) he continued his studies in mathematics at the MSU and graduated there in 1948. Smirnov began research at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics , received his doctorate in 1951 from PS Alexandrov and in 1957 a doctorate in science, which corresponds to a habilitation. From 1958 he worked as a professor at the Institute for Mechanics and Mathematics at MSU, where he retired in 1996.

Smirnow's main area of ​​work was topology, in particular metrisability , dimension theory , proximity spaces and shape theory . The set of Bing-Nagata-Smirnov , which is a topological characterization of Metrisierbarkeit is connected with his name.

literature

• Viktor M. Letter : Yurii Mikhailovich Smirnov (on his 80th birthday). In: Russian Mathematical Surveys. Vol. 57, No. 2, 2002, pp. 431-436, doi : 10.1070 / RM2002v057n02ABEH000509 .

Web links

• Juri Michailowitsch Smirnow (Russian, with picture)
• Yuriĭ Mikhaĭlovich Smirnov in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)