AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUE. PART 27: PORTRAIT OF THE KHARKOV MATHEMATICIAN NAUM IL'ICH AKHIEZER

Abstract

Purpose. Description in brief of basic scientific achievements, features of personality and way of life of the known Kharkov mathematician Akhiezer N.I. Methodology. Existent scientific approaches for treatment and systematization of mathematical knowledges. Methods of historical method at research of development in society of such sections of mathematics as a theory of functions, functional analysis and integral equations. Results. Short information is presented about the basic creative and vital stages, and also fundamental scientific achievements indicated prominent mathematicians of the 20-th century. Some personal qualities of this remarkable Kharkov mathematician, leaving about itself kind memory for thankful descendants are described. Originality. First a scientist-electrophysicist for the wide circle of readers imagined a short scientifically-historical essay on the known mathematician of contemporaneity, being based on his scientific labours and published materials about him. Practical value. Scientific popularization of the known Kharkov mathematician and his achievements in the area of theory of functions and mathematical physics. Next philosophical reminder a wide reader on the example of life and prominent scientific results of labour of one known human personality about incessant in society connection of times and generations.

Keywords

• history
• mathematics
• Kharkov region
• distinguished scientific achievements