Petrovsky

Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky

Born: 18 Jan 1901 in Sevsk, Orlov guberniya, Russia
Died: 15 Jan 1973 in Moscow, USSR

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Petrovsky was student of Egorov at Moscow, he then taught at Moscow University and, from 1943, at the Steklov Institute. He became rector of Moscow University and Vice-Director of the Steklov Institute.

His main work was on the theory of partial differential equations, the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces, and probability. Petrovsky also worked on the boundary value problem for the heat equation and this was applied to both probability theory and work of Kolmogorov.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. P S Aleksandrov, Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk 26 (1971), 3-22. 
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