Nikolos Musselishvili
Nikolos Muschelishvili ([ mʊsxɛlɪʃvɪlɪ ]; Georgian ნიკოლოზ მუსხელიშვილი ; English transcription Nikoloz Muskhelishvili; * 4th February July / 16 February 1891 greg. In Tbilisi ; † 16 July 1976 ibid) was a Georgian mathematician . He was a co-founder and first president of the Georgian Academy of Sciences .
Life
In 1914, Muschelishvili graduated from the University of Saint Petersburg with a degree in mathematics . From 1917 to 1920 he was assistant professor there. In 1920 he moved to the Mathematical Faculty of the State University of Tbilisi , where he took on an extraordinary professorship. In 1922 he became a professor in Tbilisi .
In 1939 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1941 he was elected President of the newly established Georgian Academy of Sciences . In 1972 he gave up the office. The academy appointed him honorary president.
He was a member of the International Committee of Congresses on Applied Mechanics (1956) and the Board of Directors of the International Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1960).
Muschelischwili wrote scientific papers on singular integral equations , mathematical physics and elasticity theory .
After his death he was buried on the Pantheon on Mtatsminda in Tbilisi.
Awards
In 1969 he was awarded the Modesto Panetti Prize of the Turin Academy of Sciences, in 1970 he received the Jan Jessenius Gold Medal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences , in 1972 the Lomonosov Gold Medal . The Kutaisi State Technical University now bears his name.
Fonts
- Some basic problems of the mathematical theory of elasticity . P. Noordhoff, Groningen 1953
- Singular integral equations . Moscow, 1946
- Singular integral equations. Boundary value problems of function theory and some applications to mathematical physics . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971
- Some basic tasks on the mathematical theory of elasticity . VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1971
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium, Ernst and Son 2018, p. 1036f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
Web links
- Tabular curriculum vitae on the website of the Georgian Academy of Science
- Article Nikolos Muschelischwili in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Musselishvili, Nikolos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | მუსხელიშვილი, ნიკოლოზ (Georgian); Musselishvili, Nikolos Ivanovich; Muskhelishvili, Nikoloz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1976 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |