Sergey Nikolsky

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| image = Sergey Nikolsky (1997).jpg

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| name = Sergey Nikolsky

| caption = Nikolsky giving a lecture at MIPT, 1997

| birth_name = Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|4|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Talitsa, Kamyshlovsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|11|9|1905|4|30|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow,[http://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2012/11/09/n_2609245.shtml Obituary at Gazeta.ru] Russia

| education =

| field = Mathematics

| work_institution = Moscow State University
Dnipropetrovsk National University
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
MIPT

| alma_mater = Dnipropetrovsk National University

| doctoral_advisor = Andrey Kolmogorov

| doctoral_students = Oleg Besov, Petraq Pilika

| prizes = Kolmogorov Prize (2000)

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Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky ({{langx|ru|Серге́й Миха́йлович Нико́льский}}; 30 April 1905 – 9 November 2012) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Biography

Nikolsky was born in Talitsa, which was at that time located in Kamyshlovsky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. He had been an Academician since 28 November 1972. He also had won many scientific awards. At the age of 92 he was still actively giving lectures in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2005, he was only giving talks at scientific conferences, but was still working in MIPT, at the age of 100. He died in Moscow in November 2012 at the age of 107.

Scientific activities

Nikolsky made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, approximation of functions, quadrature formulas, enclosed functional spaces and their applications to variational solutions of partial differential equations. He created a large scientific school of functions' theory and its applications. He authored over 100 scientific publications, including 3 monographs, 2 college textbooks and 7 school textbooks.

Selected publications

Approximation of functions of several variables and imbedding theorems, Springer Verlag 1975 (Russian original, Nauka, Moscow 1969)
Treatise on the shift operator, Springer Verlag 1986 (Russian original, Moscow 1980)
Operators, functions and systems. An easy reading. Volume 1: Hardy, Hankel and Toeplitz, American Mathematical Society 2002
with Valentin Petrovich Ilyin and Oleg Besov: Integral representation of functions and embedding theorems, 2 vols., Wiley 1978, 1979
as editor: Theory and applications of differentiable functions of several variables, American Mathematical Society 1967
Quadrature formulae, Delhi, Hindustan Publ. Corp. 1964
Курс математического анализа (Course in mathematical analysis, Russian), 2 vols., Nauka 1975
with {{ill|Ya. S. Bugrov|ru|Бугров, Яков Степанович}}: Differential equations, multiple integrals, series, theory of functions of a complex variable, Mir Publ., Moscow 1983

References

External links

List of publications, downloadable here: [http://nik-100.mi.ras.ru/gen_e.html Russian Academy of Sciences]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061023183120/http://courier.com.ru/kvant/kv0405nikolsky.htm For Nikolsky's centenary]
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Category:1905 births

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Category:20th-century Russian mathematicians

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Category:People from Kamyshlovsky Uyezd

Category:People from Sverdlovsk Oblast

Category:Communist Party of the Russian Federation members

Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

Category:Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Category:Academic staff of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

Category:Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Category:Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences