Sergey Stechkin

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Sergey Stechkin
Born(1920-09-06)6 September 1920
Sergei Bernstein
Doctoral studentsSergei Konyagin

Sergey Borisovich Stechkin (

Soviet mathematician who worked in theory of functions (especially in approximation theory) and number theory
.

Biography

Sergey Stechkin was born on 6 September 1920 in

hydrodynamics. His maternal grandfather, N.A. Shilov
, was a notable chemist. His paternal grandfather was Sergey Solomin, a science fiction author.

Stechkin attended school 58 and then attempted to matriculate to

D. E. Menshov
. Stechkin received his PhD in 1948 with a dissertation titled "On the order of best approximations of continuous functions".

Later he worked as a mathematician at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow. He was the founder and first director of the department of the Institute in Yekaterinburg. Later this department became the Institute of Mechanics and Mathematics at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Stechkin founded, and, for more than 20 years, served as editor-in-chief for the mathematical journal “Mathematical Notes” (Russian: Математические заметки).[1]

Stechkin served as professor of mathematics at Moscow State University and his honors include the Chebyshev Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He died in 1995 in Moscow from age-related chronic illness.

His contribution to mathematics include the generalization of Jackson's inequality for all spaces.

References

  1. ^ "Mathematical Notes, Volume 91, Numbers 5-6 - SpringerLink". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2006.

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