Vadim Komkov
Appearance
Vadim Komkov (August 18, 1919 – May 14, 2008) was born in
Warsaw Polytechnic in 1948.[citation needed] He and Joyce had their first child after the war and the family moved to emigrated to Zambia where he worked for the Rhokana Mining Company.[1] They had two more children before emigrating to the United States in 1957.[citation needed
]
He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1965.University of Wisconsin, Florida State University, West Virginia University, and Winthrop University in South Carolina. He did research for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. He was an Editor of Mathematical Reviews from 1978 to 1980.[4]
His joint monograph with Haug and Choi, "Design
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in 2009.
Books
- Haug, Edward J.; Choi, Kyung K.; Komkov, Vadim (1986) Design sensitivity analysis of structural systems. Mathematics in Science and Engineering, 177. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL.
- Komkov, Vadim (1986) Variational principles of continuum mechanics with engineering applications. Vol. 1. Critical points theory. Mathematics and its Applications, 24. D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht.
- Komkov, Vadim (1972) Optimal control theory for the damping of vibrations of simple elastic systems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 253. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York.
See also
- Criticism of non-standard analysis
References
- ^ a b c "Polish Pilots in the Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force Museum. RAF Museum. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "PhD Recipients". Department of Mathematics. University of Utah. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Vadim Komkov Obituary". Lubbock Online. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. 18 May 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Editors of Mathematical Reviews". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 21 May 2017.