Vasilii Sergeevich 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.
Honours and awards
Hero of Socialist LabourTwo Orders of LeninOrder of the Patriotic War 2nd classTwo Orders of the Red Banner of LabourMedal of ZhukovMedal "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 PrizeState Prize of the USSRVladimirov, 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 0-8285-0001-0, 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 90-277-2383-4, 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 0-415-27356-0, 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).