Known for KPP type equation Doctoral advisor Dmitri Egorov | Role Mathematician Name Ivan Petrovsky | |
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Born 18 January 1901
Sevsk, Russian Empire ( 1901-01-18 ) Institutions Moscow State University
Steklov Institute of Mathematics Alma mater Moscow State University Doctoral students Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Yevgeniy Landis
Olga Oleinik
Sergei Godunov
Aleksei Filippov Died January 15, 1973, Moscow, Russia Books Lectures on Partial Differential Equations Notable students Olga Oleinik, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Sergei K. Godunov Similar People Olga Oleinik, Dmitri Egorov, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Sergei K Godunov, David Hilbert | ||
Education Moscow State University | ||
Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, (Russian: Ива́н Гео́ргиевич Петро́вский) (18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) (the family name is also transliterated as Petrovskii or Petrowsky), was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.
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Petrovsky was a student of Dmitri Egorov. Among his students were Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Yevgeniy Landis, Olga Oleinik and Sergei Godunov.
Petrovsky taught at Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1946 and was awarded 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). He is buried in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow.