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Vladimir Smirnov

1887 - 1974

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Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Смирно́в; 10 June 1887 – 11 February 1974) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Smirnov worked on diverse areas of mathematics, such as complex functions and conjugate functions in Euclidean spaces. In the applied field his work includes the propagation of waves in elastic media with plane boundaries (with Sergei Sobolev) and the oscillations of elastic spheres. His pioneering approach to solving the initial-boundary value problem to the wave equation formed the basis of the spacetime triangle diagram (STTD) technique for wave motion developed by his follower Victor Borisov (also known as the Smirnov method of incomplete separation of variables). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Smirnov is the 458th most popular mathematician (down from 421st in 2019), the 910th most popular biography from Russia (up from 984th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Vladimir Smirnov ranks 458 out of 1,004. Before him are Erhard Schmidt, Yutaka Taniyama, Sam Loyd, William Jones, Enrico Betti, and Mary Cartwright. After him are Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Adriaan van Roomen, Klaus Roth, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Luigi Cremona, and Nikolai Luzin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Vladimir Smirnov ranks 116. Before him are Norman L. Bowen, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, James Finlayson, Frigyes Karinthy, Andrei Shkuro, and Hector Hodler. After him are Kurt Atterberg, Jean Ray, Sydir Kovpak, Arthur Percival, Simon Kimbangu, and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu. Among people deceased in 1974, Vladimir Smirnov ranks 99. Before him are Maximilian de Angelis, Werner Lorenz, Rosario Castellanos, Cornelius Ryan, Jim Bausch, and Manuel A. Odría. After him are Kurt Atterberg, Christine Chubbuck, Bert Patenaude, Messali Hadj, Anfilogino Guarisi, and Lev Oborin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Smirnov ranks 910 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrei Shkuro (1887), Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (1868), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Eugene Botkin (1865), Sergei Kruglov (1907), and Andrei Kirilenko (1906). After him are Mikhail Romm (1901), Yuri Levitan (1914), Dmitry Peskov (1967), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), and Konstantin of Rostov (1185).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Vladimir Smirnov ranks 27. Before him are Sergei Sobolev (1908), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Nina Bari (1901), Alfred Clebsch (1833), and Igor Ansoff (1918). After him are Nikolai Luzin (1883), Kurt Hensel (1861), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), and Solomon Lefschetz (1884).

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