Vasily Vladimirov

Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov (Russian: Васи́лий Серге́евич Влади́миров; 9 January 1923 – 3 November 2012) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician 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.

Life

Vladimirov was born to a peasant family of 5 children, in 1923,

During the Second World War, Vladimirov took part in defence of Leningrad against German invasion, building defences, working as a tractor driver and as meteorologist in Air Force after training. He served in several different units, mainly as part of air-defense system of Leningrad. He was given the rank of sergeant major in the reserves after the war and permitted to return to his study.

When he returned to university, Vladimirov shifted his focus of interest from physics to

As the Soviet atomic bomb programme ran, Vladimirov was assigned to assist with the development of the bomb, in joint force with many top scientists and industrialists. He worked with Vitalevich Kantorovich calculating critical parameters of certain simple nuclear systems. In 1950, when he was sent to

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
• Medal of Zhukov
• Medal "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 Prize
• USSR State Prize

Selected publications

• Vladimirov, V. S. (1966),
  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,
  several complex variables
  .
• Vladimirov, V.S. (1983), Equations of mathematical physics (2nd ed.),
  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), vol. 10,
  Zbl 0636.40003
  .
• Vladimirov, V.S. (2002), Methods of the theory of generalized functions, Analytical Methods and Special Functions, vol. 6,
  several complex variables and mathematical physics, as is customary for the Author: it is a substantial revision of the textbook (Vladimirov 1979
  ).

• Nikolay Bogolyubov
• Generalized function
• Edge-of-the-wedge theorem
• Riemann–Hilbert problem

References

Biographical and general references

• Zbl 1050.01516
  .
• Zbl 0512.01021
  .
• Gonchar, Andrei Aleksandrovich;
  Zbl 0797.01012
  .

• Vladimirov's academic web page at the
  Russian Academy of Science
  .
• Vasily Vladimirov author page at Math-Net.Ru.
• Chuyanov, V.A. (2001) [1994], "Vladimirov method", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
• Drozhzhinov, Yu.N. (2001) [1994], "Vladimirov variational principle", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
• Vasily Vladimirov's obituary (in Russian)