Ivan Petrovsky
Ivan Petrovsky | |
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Иван Петровский | |
Petrovsky on a 1973 Soviet stamp | |
| Born | 18 January 1901 Sevsk, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 15 January 1973 (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Hyperbolic partial differential equations Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation Petrovsky lacuna |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Moscow State University Steklov Institute of Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Dmitri Egorov |
Doctoral students | Olga Ladyzhenskaya Evgenii Landis Olga Oleinik Sergei Godunov Aleksei Filippov |
Ivan Georgiyevich Petrovsky (Russian: Иван Георгиевич Петровский; 18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.