Vera Nikolaevna Faddejewa

Wera Nikolajewna Faddejewa , née Samjatina ( Russian Вера Николаевна Фаддеева , English transcription Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva ; born September 20, 1906 in Tambov ; † April 15, 1983 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet mathematician .

She was the daughter of Nikolai Zamyatin. Faddejewa studied from 1927 at the State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad and from 1928 at the State University in particular with Nikolai Maximowitsch Günter . In 1930 she obtained her diploma and then worked for a few years at the Leningrad Weights Office, 1930 to 1934 at the Hydraulic Engineering Institute and 1933/34 at the Seismological Institute of the Academy of Sciences and 1935 to 1938 at the Institute of Civil Engineering with Boris Galjorkin . In 1938 she began her doctoral studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad, which she completed in 1946 with a doctorate (candidate title). During the siege of Leningrad, she and her family were evacuated in Kazan . From 1942 she was at the Steklov Institute of the Academy of Sciences, where she (in its branch in Leningrad) stayed for the rest of her career. She was part of the group for numerical methods at the State University of Leningrad founded by Mark Konstantinowitsch Gawurin (1911-1992) and Leonid Kantorowitsch in 1948 and headed the laboratory for numerical methods at the Steklow Institute. With Solomon Grigoryevich Michlin , she led a seminar on numerical methods in Leningrad, in which foreign mathematicians such as James H. Wilkinson , Gene Golub , George E. Forsythe , Richard Varga also took part. With Kantorowitsch she was also involved in secret research for the nuclear engineering program of the Soviet Union.

In 1949 she published tables of Bessel functions with Gawurin and her book on numerical methods of linear algebra was published, which was also translated into English (the first chapter in 1952, the whole book in 1959). The book was one of the first textbooks on numerical methods in linear algebra , an area in which she was a recognized expert. The book was later greatly expanded together with Dmitri Faddejew. The Russian edition of the joint book appeared in 1960 (in English translation 1960) and a new edition in 1975 taking into account the research results that have since been achieved. She and her husband received the state prize for the book.

In 1930 she married the well-known mathematician Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Faddejew , with whom she had three children, including the theoretical physicist Ludwig Faddejew .

Fonts

• Automatic programming and numerical methods of analysis , 1972
• Computational methods in linear algebra , New York, Dover 1959
• with Dmitri Faddejew: Numerical methods of linear algebra , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1965, 5th edition, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1976, English: Computational methods of linear algebra , Freeman 1963

See also

• Faddeeva function

Web links

• Literature by and about Wera Nikolajewna Faddejewa in the catalog of the German National Library
• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .