Ilia Vekua
Ilia Wekua (Georgian ილია ვეკუა; Russian Илья Нестерович Векуа; Ilia Vekua English transcription; born April 23, 1907 in Schescheleti, Ochamchyra district, Abkhazia, † December 2, 1977 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet- Georgian mathematician.
It dealt mainly with partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells.
Life
Ilia Wekua was born in 1907 in the village Schescheleti in today's Abkhazia. He studied from 1925 at the Tbilisi State University, where he graduated in 1930. After that he went to Leningrad to continue his studies with Alexei Krylov.
From 1933 he was back in Tbilisi in Nikoloz Muschelischwili, received his doctorate in 1937 and became candidates after the Habilitation (Russian doctoral degree ) in 1940 professor. 1936 to 1938 he was director of the theoretical division of the Geophysics Institute of the Georgian part of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1951 he was back in Moscow, where he was 1951/52, Head of the Central Aerodynamics Institute, was 1952/53, Deputy Director of the Institute of Precision Mechanics and calculators of the Academy of Sciences, 1954-1959 Deputy Director of the Steklov Institute. 1959 to 1964 he was the first Rector of Novosibirsk State University. Then he was back in Tbilisi, where he became in 1968 director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, which is now named after him.
After his death he was buried in the Pantheon on the mountain Mtazminda in Tbilisi.
Awards
1964/65 he was Vice President and 1972-1977 President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, whose corresponding member since 1944, he whose full member of it since 1946 and whose secretary he was from 1947 to 1951. In 1946 he was also correspondent and in 1958 a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1969 he was Hero of Socialist Labor, 1950, he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1975 the Order of Lenin and 1984 the USSR State Prize. In 1969 he became an honorary doctorate from the University Hall, a member of the Leopoldina and honorary senator of the University of Jena. In 1976, he became a foreign member of the Sicilian Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Compactness of families of solutions of elliptic differential equations ).
Writings
- Systems of first order differential equations of elliptic type and boundary value problems with an application in the theory of shells, German Academic Publishers, Berlin 1956
- Generalized analytic functions, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1963 ( Russian edition 1959, 2nd edition 1988, English edition Pergamon Press, Oxford 1962)
- New methods for solving elliptic equations, North Holland, 1967 ( Russian edition 1948)
- Shell theory: general methods of construction, Pitman, 1985