Vasily Vladimirov

Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov (Russian: Васи́лий Серге́евич Влади́миров; 9 January 1923 – 3 November 2012) was a Soviet mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems.

Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov
Vladimirov in Nice, 1970
Born	(1923-01-09)9 January 1923 Dyaglevo, Volkhov district, Leningrad region USSR
Died	3 November 2012(2012-11-03) (aged 89)
Nationality	Russian, Soviet
Alma mater	Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) 1959
Known for	number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems
Awards	Stalin prize 1953, Lyapunov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1971, USSR State Prize 1987
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics and mathematical physics
Institutions	Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Boris Venkov
Other academic advisors	Nikolay Bogolyubov, Leonid Kantorovich

Honours and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
• Medal of Zhukov
• Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
• Medal "Veteran of Labour"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
• Stalin Prize
• State Prize of the USSR

Selected publications

• Vladimirov, V. S. (1966), Ehrenpreis, L. (ed.), Methods of the theory of functions of several complex variables. With a foreword of N.N. Bogolyubov, Cambridge-London: The M.I.T. Press, pp. XII+353, MR 0201669, Zbl 0125.31904 (Zentralblatt review of the original Russian edition). One of the first modern monographs on the theory of several complex variables, being different from other ones of the same period due to the extensive use of generalized functions.
• Vladimirov, V. S. (1979), Generalized functions in mathematical physics, Moscow: Mir Publishers, p. 362, ISBN 978-0-8285-0001-2, MR 0564116, Zbl 0515.46034. A textbook on the theory of generalized functions and their applications to mathematical physics and several complex variables.
• Vladimirov, V.S. (1983), Equations of mathematical physics (2nd ed.), Moscow: Mir Publishers, p. 464, MR 0764399, Zbl 0207.09101 (Zentralblatt review of the first English edition).
• Vladimirov, V.S.; Drozzinov, Yu.N.; Zavialov, B.I. (1988), Tauberian theorems for generalized functions, Mathematics and Its Applications (Soviet Series), 10, Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. XV+293, ISBN 978-90-277-2383-3, MR 0947960, Zbl 0636.40003.
• Vladimirov, V.S. (2002), Methods of the theory of generalized functions, Analytical Methods and Special Functions, 6, London-New York City: Taylor & Francis, pp. XII+353, ISBN 978-0-415-27356-5, MR 2012831, Zbl 1078.46029. A monograph on the theory of generalized functions written with an eye towards their applications to several complex variables and mathematical physics, as is customary for the Author: it is a substantial revision of the textbook (Vladimirov 1979).

See also

• Nikolay Bogolyubov
• Generalized function
• Edge-of-the-wedge theorem
• Riemann–Hilbert problem

References

Biographical and general references

• Bolibrukh, Andrey Andreevich; Volovich, Igor Vasil'evich; Faddeev, Lyudvig Dmitrievich; Gonchar, Andrei Aleksandrovich; Kadyshevskii, Vladimir Georgievich; Logunov, Anatoly Alekseevich; Marchuk, Guri Ivanovich; Mishchenko, Evgenii Frolovich; Nikol'skii, Sergei Mikhailovich; Novikov, Sergei Petrovich (2003), "Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov (on his 80th birthday)", 'UMN' (in Russian), 58 (1(349)): 199–207, MR 1992146, Zbl 1050.01516 External link in |journal= (help).
• Bogolyubov, Nikolai Nikolaevich; Logunov, Anatoly Alekseevich; Marchuk, Guri Ivanovich (1983), "Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov (on his sixtieth birthday)", 'UMN' (in Russian), 38 (1(229)): 207–216, MR 0693751, Zbl 0512.01021 External link in |journal= (help).
• Gonchar, Andrei Aleksandrovich; Marchuk, Guri Ivanovich; Novikov, Sergei Petrovich (1993), "Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov (on his seventieth birthday)", 'UMN' (in Russian), 48 (1(289)): 195–204, MR 1227969, Zbl 0797.01012 External link in |journal= (help).

External links

• Vladimirov's academic web page at the Russian Academy of Science.
• Vasily Vladimirov author page at Math-Net.Ru.
• Chuyanov, V.A. (2001) [1994], "Vladimirov method", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
• Drozhzhinov, Yu.N. (2001) [1994], "Vladimirov variational principle", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
• Vasily Vladimirov's obituary (in Russian)