Nikolai Vladimirovich Efimov

Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Efimow, also quoted as Efimow ( Russian: Николай Владимирович Ефимов , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Vladimirovič Efimov ; born May 31, 1910 in Orenburg ; † October 16, 1982 in Moscow ), was a Russian mathematician who dealt with.

Jefimow grew up in Rostov-on-Don and studied with DD Morduhai-Boltowskoj at the Rostov State University. From 1934 to 1941 he was at the University of Voronezh and from 1946 at the Lomonosov University in Moscow , where he held the chair of geometry. He was the dean of the Mech-Math faculty at Lomonosov University in the 1960s and contributed very much to its high reputation in Soviet mathematics, but resigned for political reasons in 1969 when the pressure on Lomonosov University resulted the Yessenin-Wolpin affair increased.

In 1966 he received the Lenin Prize and in 1951 the Lobachevsky Medal . In 1966 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Moscow ( Hyperbolic Problems in the Theory of Surfaces ). Since 1979 he has been a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1980 he became editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of the Moskowskije Novosti .

Fonts

• Higher geometry (= university books for mathematics . Vol. 51). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1960. 2 volumes: Vieweg, 1970.
• Surface bending on a large scale. Academy, Berlin 1957.
• Quadratic forms and matrices - an introductory approach. Academic Press, 1964.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sossinsky, Interview, pdf