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Vladimir Boltyansky

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Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Болтя́нский; 26 April 1925 – 16 April 2019),[1] also transliterated as Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, or Boltjansky, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, educator and author of popular mathematical books and articles. He was best known for his books on topology, combinatorial geometry and Hilbert's third problem.

Biography

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Boltyansky was born in Moscow.[2] He served in the Soviet army during World War II, when he was a signaller on the 2nd Belorussian Front.[3] He graduated from Moscow University in 1948, where his advisor was Lev Pontryagin. He defended his "Doktor nauk in physics and mathematics" (higher doctorate) degree in 1955, became a professor in 1959.

Boltyansky was awarded the Lenin Prize (for the work led by Pontryagin, Revaz Gamkrelidze, and Evgenii Mishchenko [ru]) for applications of differential equations to optimal control, where he was one of the discoverers of the Pontryagin's maximum principle.[4] In 1967 he received Uzbek SSR prize for the work on ordered rings. He taught at CIMAT.[5]

He was the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education. He was the author of over 200 books and mathematical articles.

References

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  1. ^ "Болтянский Владимир Григорьевич". math.ru. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. ^ Lev Pontryagin's memoirs, p. 214.
  3. ^ "60 Anniversary World War II Celebrations". Archived from the original on 11 August 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  4. ^ L.S. Pontryagin, V.G. Boltyanskii, R.V. Gamkredilze, and E.F. Mishenko. The mathematical theory of optimal processes. Interscience Publishers, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York - London, 1962.
  5. ^ Faculty profile, CIMAT, Retrieved 2014-01-19.
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