Ivan Petrovsky

Ivan Gieorgijewicz Petrovsky (Russian: Иван Георгиевич Петровский, born January 18, 1901 in Siewsk, died January 15, 1973 in Moscow) - Soviet mathematician, rector of the Moscow State University (1951-1973), the Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Curriculum vitae

In 1917 he graduated from the municipal real school and started studying at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University. In 1918 he returned to the family, with whom he soon went to Jelizawietgrad (currently Kropywnycki), he worked, among others, as a locksmith. In 1922 he returned to Moscow and continued his studies, in 1923 he became a lecturer in mathematics at the Faculty of Labor, in 1927 he graduated from the Moscow State University in accelerated mode, in 1930 he completed his aspirancy. In 1929 he became an assistant and associate professor, in 1933 became a professor, in 1935 he was the head of the department in PhD in physical and mathematical sciences, and in 1939 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and at the same time in 1935-1937 he headed the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the Saratov University. During the war with Germany in 1941-1943 he was on evacuation in Tashkent, Ashkhabad and Sverdlovsk, in 1943 he returned to Moscow and became a senior scientist of the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1947-1949 he was a deputy director of this institute, and in 1949-1951 he was a secretary of the Faculty The Physical-Mathematical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In May 1951 he became the rector of the Moscow State University, which he remained until the end of his life. He wrote many scientific papers, monographs and publications. He mainly dealt with the theory of differential equations, probability calculus and topology of curves and algebraic surfaces. His most important works are ordinary differential equations (1939, Polish edition 1953), Partial differential equations (1950, published in 1955) and Izbrannya trudy (1987). In the years 1962-1973 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 6 to 8 terms, and in 1966-1973 a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1955 he became a member of the Presidium of the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace. In 1965 he became the honorary doctor of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, in 1968 the University of Lund, in 1960 Charles University in Prague, in 1962 the University of Bucharest, and in 1972 the University of Sofia. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. Honors and awards

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