Mikhail Lavrentyev

Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Лаврентьев; * 6 Novemberjul / November 19 1900greg in Kazan, .. † October 15, 1980 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician and physicist.

Lavrentiev made ​​in 1922 graduated from the Moscow State University in Moscow and received his doctorate there (Russian doctoral degree, equivalent to a habilitation ) in 1933. Thereafter, he was Professor of Analysis and Function Theory at the Moscow State University and from 1934 Head of function theory on relocated to Moscow Steklov Institute. 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1949 he was director of the Mathematics Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev and was from 1945 Vice-President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1950 he became director of the Institute for Mechanics and Computing Technology of Ukraine.

Lavrentiev was one of the main organizers and (from 1957), the first chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The foundation of the town of Akademgorodok scientists emerged within a very short time, numerous research institutions and the Novosibirsk State University. From 1975 he was back in Moscow Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( MIPT ).

He wrote a book on conformal mappings, which he applied particularly in hydrodynamics, for example, in nonlinear waves, but also in the geotechnical and structural engineering that was required at the big dam and canal construction projects in Russia from the 1940s. In the 1940s he developed the theory of quasi- conformal mappings for the application in the theory of partial differential equations.

Lavrentiev numerous awards were presented: Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin State Prize and the Soviet State Prize and the Lomonosov Gold Medal ( 1977). 1957 to 1975 he was Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1962 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Sur les representations quasi- conformes ).

Today is awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. A. Lavrentiev Prize to outstanding scientists.

His son, Mikhail M. Lavrentiev (1932-2010) was also a significant Russian mathematician, director of the Mathematical Institute in Novosibirsk and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Writings

  • Variational methods for boundary value problems for elliptic equations, Noordhoff 1963, New York, Dover 1989
  • With BWSchabat: methods of complex function theory, Berlin, German Academic Publishers 1967
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