Yurii Oleksiyovych Mitropolskiy (Ukrainian: Юрій Олексійович Митропольський; 3 January 1917 – 14 June 2008) was a renowned Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician known for his contributions to the fields of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations. He was born in Poltava Governorate and died in Kyiv.

Yurii Mitropolskiy
Born(1917-01-03)3 January 1917
Died14 June 2008(2008-06-14) (aged 91)
Alma materTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
AwardsHero of Ukraine,
State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology,
Lenin Prize,
Hero of Socialist Labour
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics, dynamical systems, differential equations
InstitutionsInstitute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine
Doctoral advisorNikolay Bogolyubov
Doctoral studentsOleksandr Sharkovsky

He received his Ph.D. from Kyiv University, under the supervision of theoretical physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogolyubov.[1] Mitropolskiy is one of the most frequently joint-published mathematicians known, with at least 240 collaborators.[2] Member of the Communist Party since 1945.

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Selected works edit

  • N. N. Bogolyubov and Y. A. Mitropolskiy. Asymptotic methods in the theory of non-linear oscillations. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1961 (translated from Russian).
  • N. N. Bogolyubov, Ju. A. Mitropolskiy, and A. M. Samoilenko. Methods of accelerated convergence in nonlinear mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1976 (translated from Russian).
  • Yu. A. Mitropolskiy and A. K. Lopatin. Nonlinear mechanics, groups and symmetry. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0-7923-3339-X.
  • Yu. A. Mitropolskiy. Problems of the asymptotic theory of nonstationary vibrations. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1965.
  • Yu. A. Mitropolskiy, A. M. Samoilenko, and D. I. Martinyuk. Systems of evolution equations with periodic and quasiperiodic coefficients. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1993. ISBN 0-7923-2054-9.
  • Integrable dynamical systems (coauthor).

References edit

  1. ^ Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Grossman, Jerrold W. (January 2005). "Patterns of Research in Mathematics" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society: 35–41. Retrieved 16 September 2011.