Vladimir Smirnov
Mathematician, Academic
1887 – 1974
Who was Vladimir Smirnov?
Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov was a Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics.
Smirnov worked on diverse areas of mathematics, such as complex functions and conjugate functions in Euclidean spaces. In the applied field his work includes the propagation of waves in elastic media with plane boundaries and the oscillations of elastic spheres. His pioneering approach to solving the initial-boundary value problem to the wave equation formed the basis of the spacetime triangle diagram technique for wave motion developed by his follower Victor Borisov.
Smirnov was a Ph.D. student of Vladimir Steklov. Among his notable students were Sergei Sobolev, Solomon Mikhlin and Nobel prize winner Leonid Kantorovich.
Smirnov is also widely known among students for his five volume book A Course in Higher Mathematics.
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- Born
- Jun 10, 1887
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- V. I. Smirnov
- Wladimir Smirnow
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- Died
- Feb 11, 1974
Saint Petersburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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