Naum Jakowlewitsch Wilenkin

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Naum Jakowlewitsch Wilenkin ( Russian Наум Яковлевич Виленкин , English Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin), (born October 30, 1920 in Moscow , † 1991 ) was a Soviet mathematician of Russian nationality, who is known for his popular science books.

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Wilenkin studied at Lomonossow University until 1942 , where he completed his habilitation under Alexander Kurosch in 1950 . From 1951 he was a professor. He taught at various Moscow universities and was from 1961 at the Moscow Pedagogical University. His areas of work were algebra, topology, functional analysis, theory of real functions and combinatorics. Among other things, he was an employee of Israel Gelfand and co-author of one of its volumes in the textbook series on distributions.

He mainly devoted himself to improving mathematical education in schools and received the Uschinsky Prize in 1976 for his school books.

literature

  • Gottwald, Ilgauds, Schlote: Lexicon of important mathematicians. 1991.
  • FI Karpelevich, AU Klimyk, LM Koganov, u. a .: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin (on the occasion of his seventieth birthday). Russian Math. Surveys, Vol. 46, 1991, pp. 251-254.

Fonts

  • Combinatorics. Academic Press, New York, 1971.
  • with A. Klimyk, V. Molchanov, Alexander Kirillow : Representation Theory and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis II: Homogeneous Spaces, Representations and Special Functions. Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences 1994.
  • with A. Klimyk: Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions: Recent Advances. Mathematics and Its Applications, Kluwer 1994.
  • with A. Klimyk Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions.
    • Volume 1: Simplest Lie Groups, Special Functions and Integral Transforms. Mathematics and its Applications, Kluwer 1991.
    • Volume 2: Class 1 Representations, Special Functions, and Integral Transforms. Kluwer 1993.
    • Volume 3: Classical and quantum groups and special functions. Kluwer 1992.
  • With Gelfand: Generalized Functions. Volume 4. (German VEB Verlag der Wissenschaften 1960).
  • with Israel Gelfand , M. Graev, E. Saletan: Generalized Functions . Volume 5: Integral geometry and representation theory. (German VEB Verlag der Wissenschaften 1962).
  • Special functions and the theory of group representations. AMS 1968.
  • Direct decompositions of topological groups, I, II. American Mathematical Society, Translation Series, 1950.

Popular science books on mathematics

  • In Search of Infinity. Birkhäuser 1995.
  • Combinatorial mathematics for recreation. 1972.
  • Entertaining set theory. Harri Deutsch, 1974 (English Stories About Sets. Academic Press 1968).
  • Successive approximation. Popular lectures in mathematics, Oxford 1964.
personal data
SURNAME Wilenkin, Naum Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Наум Яковлевич Виленкин; Vilenkin, Naum Yakovlevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 1991