Vadim Komkov

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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

  1. ^ a b c "Polish Pilots in the Royal Air Force". Royal Air Force Museum. RAF Museum. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  2. ^ "PhD Recipients". Department of Mathematics. University of Utah. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Vadim Komkov Obituary". Lubbock Online. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. 18 May 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Editors of Mathematical Reviews". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 21 May 2017.