Ivan Petrovsky
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Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, also Petrovskii (Russian: Иван Георгиевич Петровский) (January 18, 1901, Sevsk – January 15, 1973, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to solution of Hilbert's 19-th and 16th problems. He also worked on the boundary value problem, probability, and topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.
Petrovsky was a student of Dmitri Egorov. Among his students were Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Yevgeniy Landis and Olga Oleinik.
Petrovsky was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1946 and was awared Hero of Socialist Labor in 1969. He was the president of Moscow State University (1951 — 1973) and the head of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Moscow, 1966).
[edit] External links
- Ivan Petrovsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Ivan Petrovsky". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Short Biography of Petrovsky – from the Moscow Mathematical Journal
