Nationality Russian Name Ludvig Faddeev | Role Physicist | |
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Doctoral students Vladimir BuslaevPetr KulishNicolai ReshetikhinLeon TakhtajanVladimir KorepinAlexander Its Known for Faddeev–Popov ghostsFaddeev equationsFaddeev–Senjanovic quantizationFaddeev–Jackiw quantization Notable awards Dannie Heineman Prize (1975)Dirac Prize (1990)Max Planck Medal (1996)Pomeranchuk Prize (2002)Demidov Prize (2002)Poincare Prize (2006)Shaw Prize (2008)Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013) Education Saint Petersburg State University Books Hamiltonian methods in the theory of solitons Fields Mathematics, Theoretical physics Similar People Nicolai Reshetikhin, Vladimir Korepin, Vladimir Arnold, A A Slavnov, Olga Ladyzhenskaya | ||
Doctoral advisor Olga Ladyzhenskaya | ||
Ludvig faddeev colloquium ehrenfestii leiden 15 april 2015
Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also Ludwig Dmitriyevich; Russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.
Contents
- Ludvig faddeev colloquium ehrenfestii leiden 15 april 2015
- What modern mathematical physics should be 2 ludwig faddeev
- Biography
- Honours and awards
- List of publications
- Selected works
- References
What modern mathematical physics should be 2 ludwig faddeev
Biography
Faddeev was born in Leningrad to a family of mathematicians. His father, Dmitry Faddeev, was a well known algebraist, professor of Leningrad University and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His mother, Vera Faddeeva, was known for her work in numerical linear algebra. Faddeev attended Leningrad University, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1956. He enrolled in physics, rather than mathematics, "to be independent of [his] father". Nevertheless, he received a solid education in mathematics as well "due to the influence of V. A. Fock and V. I. Smirnov". His doctoral work, on scattering theory, was completed in 1959 under the direction of Olga Ladyzhenskaya.
From 1976 to 2000, Faddeev was head of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (PDMI RAS). He was an invited visitor to the CERN Theory Division for the first time in 1973 and made several further visits there.
In 1988 he founded the Euler International Mathematical Institute, now a department of PDMI RAS.
Honours and awards
Faddeev was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1976, and was a member of a number of foreign academies, including the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society. He received numerous honors including USSR State Prize (1971), Dannie Heineman Prize (1975), Dirac Prize (1990), an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden, Max Planck Medal (1996), Demidov Prize (2002 - "For outstanding contribution to the development of mathematics, quantum mechanics, string theory and solitons") and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995, 2004). He was president of the International Mathematical Union (1986–1990). He was awarded the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2006 and the Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences in 2008. Also the Karpinsky International Prize and the Max Planck Medal (German Physical Society). He also received the Lomonosov Gold Medal for 2013.
Faddeev also received state awards: