Victor Pavlovich Maslov

Viktor Pavlovich Maslov (Russian Виктор Павлович Маслов, English Victor Maslov, born June 15, 1930 in Moscow ) is a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist.

Work

Maslow was known for developing the theory of the Maslov index in the 1970s, an adiabatic invariant of classical dynamical systems, originally developed under the WKB approximation. It deals with various issues of theoretical and mathematical physics, in particular the quantization of classical systems, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum field theory solitons. He is a professor at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, where Head of quantum statistics and quantum field theory.

He is since 1984 member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Russian State Prize. In 1983 he received the Lyapunov Gold Medal and 1985 the Lenin Prize for his work on global asymptotic methods in the theory of linear partial differential equations. In 1983 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Warsaw ( Non-standard Characteristics in Asymptotical problem), and in 1970 he was invited speaker on the ICM in Nice (The characteristics of pseudo- differential operators and difference schemes ).

Writings

• Théorie des perturbations et methods asymptotiques, 1972
• With Omeljanow Geometric Asymptotics for nonlinear partial differential equations, AMS 2002
• Mathematics and the trajectory of typhoons in Bolibruch, Osipov, Sinai (Editor) Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century, Springer 2006, pp. 163