Vladimir Smirnov (mathematician)
Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Смирнов, scientific transliteration Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov; * 29 Maijul / June 10 1887greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † February 11, 1974 in Leningrad ) was a Russian- Soviet mathematician.
Life and work
Smirnov won already in high school a gold medal in mathematics. His classmates were, inter alia, Alexander Friedmann and Tamarkin, with whom he was friends. He studied in St. Petersburg and took his degree in 1910. His doctorate was on the problem of the inversion of linear differential equations with four singular points. Smirnov was even further at the University to pursue an academic career. With friends he made in 1911/12 a study circle in which they studied the works of Edouard Goursat and Paul appeal on Mechanics and Analysis. From 1912 taught Smirnov at the Institute of Railway Engineering in St. Petersburg. In 1915 he became a professor in St. Petersburg. 1919 to 1922 he taught at the University of Simferopol in Ukraine. Then he returned to St. Petersburg, where he founded in 1921 the Chair of Higher Mathematics at the Physics Department of the University. In 1936 he completed his habilitation (Russian PhD ) and was director of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. In addition, he was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1953 he initiated the Leningrad Mathematical Seminar, which was partially as a substitute for the Leningrad Mathematical Society, which was dissolved at the end of the 1920s for political reasons and was re-established thanks to Smirnov's use in 1959.
His five-volume course of higher mathematics is a standard reference work for engineers and physicists. The first band he originally wrote with Tamarkin. He was, among others, into English, German, French and Chinese translation.
Most recently, he wrote a history of mathematics in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg ). As he himself said, caused him this much joy and everything would have been logical and clear, until he had made his own thesis - because he understood nothing. In addition, he edited the works of Tschebyschoff, Lyapunov, and others.
Smirnov was made universal and an excellent piano player, who also gave concerts at the university. Most recently, he lived in his Data damage in Komarowo the Gulf of Finland.
Writings
- Smirnov course of higher mathematics, 5 parts into 6 volumes, German VEB Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, from 1953 to 1962 and later editions, Harri German 1994 ( in seven volumes ) Volume 1: Functional dependence and the theory of limits, derivative and integral, series, functions of several variables, complex numbers
- Volume 2: Ordinary Differential Equations. Multiple integrals, line integrals, improper integrals. Vector analysis. Differential geometry. Fourier series. Partial Differential Equations.
- Volume 3-1: determinants. Systems of equations. Linear transformations, quadratic forms. Group theory. Representations.
- Volume 3-2: function theory. Conformal Mapping. Functions of several variables. Linear differential equations. Special functions.
- Volume 4: Integral Equations. Calculus of variations. Partial Differential Equations. Boundary value problems.
- Volume 5: Stieltjesches integral. Lebesgue integral. Generalization of the integral term. Hilbert space.