Konstantin Adolfowitsch Semendjajew

Konstantin Adolfowitsch Semendjajew ( Russian Константин Адольфович Семендяев , English transcription Konstantin Adolfovic Semendyaev; born December 9, 1908 in Simferopol ; † November 15, 1988 ) was a Russian applied mathematician .

Life

Semendjajew studied at the Lomonosov University with the degree in 1929 and was then at various high schools. 1931 to 1936 he was in the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Lomonosov University. He completed his habilitation in 1940 (Russian doctorate). From 1936 he headed the Mathematical Instruments Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. With the institute he was evacuated to Kazan during World War II. After the Second World War, he headed a department for numerical calculations at the Steklov Institute in Moscow and when the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the Steklow Institute was founded in 1953, his group became the Gas Dynamics department. In 1961 he became deputy head of the Institute for Applied Mathematics. In 1963 he went to the Hydrometeorological Center of the USSR, where he directed programming work. He also supported teaching in applied mathematics at various Moscow educational institutions.

He is known as the co-author of the paperback of mathematics, which is widespread in Germany and Russia (briefly called Bronstein in Germany ) with Ilja Nikolajewitsch Bronstein . The first version was written in 1939/40, but the printing plates were temporarily lost during the siege of Leningrad and the book was published in 1945, after these were found again, a first German translation of the 6th edition in 1958 by Teubner. While the book was still being edited in Germany to this day, its publication in Russia temporarily ended in 1967 with the 11th edition by Nauka, as a translation of an American textbook was published instead and the content of the Bronstein no longer met the higher requirements.

With the thoroughly revised new German edition in 1979, a new edition also appeared in Russian, in which Semendjajew also contributed (section on computing systems and numerical harmonic analysis). In 1986 the 13th Russian edition was published.

Since its inception, he has been on the editorial staff of the Russian journal Journal for Numerical Mathematics and Mathematical Physics ( Журнал вычислительной математики и математической физики ).

He received the Order of Lenin, the State Prize of the USSR and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

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Individual evidence

^ Granino A. Korn, Theresa M. Korn, Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers, New York: McGraw Hill 1961. It was also reprinted by Dover.
↑ His obituary appeared there, Volume 29, 1989, pp. 474–475, online

personal data
SURNAME	Semendjajew, Konstantin Adolfowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Семендяев, Константин Адольфович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Simferopol
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 1988

[1] Granino A. Korn, Theresa M. Korn, Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers, New York: McGraw Hill 1961. It was also reprinted by Dover.

[2] His obituary appeared there, Volume 29, 1989, pp. 474–475, online