Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev (Russian Вячеслав Иванович Лебедев, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev English transcription; born January 27, 1930 in Kostroma, † March 22, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Russian mathematician who has dealt with numerical mathematics.

Lebedev studied from 1949 at Moscow State University, where he received his doctorate with Sergei Sobolev Lvovitch 1957 ( Finite difference method for a system of equations). He was from 1957 at the Kurchatov Institute, his habilitation in 1967 (Russian Ph.D. ) and taught from 1969 at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( from 1973 as a professor ) and at the Lomonosov University.

He worked in many areas of numerical mathematics such as numerical solution stiff systems of differential equations, approximation by polynomials, numerical analysis of surface integrals on the sphere ( Lebedev quadrature ), domain decomposition for finite difference methods and iterative solvers on parallel computers, and was also on the numerical modeling of nuclear reactors involved, which led to travel restrictions later.

He received the Soviet State Prize (1987 ), the Kurchatov Prize (1984 and 2000) and the Chebyshev Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 2002).

Writings

• With Guri Ivanovich Marchuk: Numerical methods in the theory of neutron transport. 2nd edition. Harwood, Chur / New York 1986, ISBN 3-7186-0182-6.
• An introduction to functional analysis in computational mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, 1997, ISBN 0-8176-3888-1.