Boris Levitan
1996
Born(1914-06-07)7 June 1914
Died4 April 2004(2004-04-04) (aged 89)
Minneapolis, United States
Alma materKharkov State University
Known forGelfand–Levitan equation, Levitan almost-periodic functions
AwardsOrder of Lenin
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorNaum Akhiezer
Doctoral studentsGrigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, Gusein Sh. Guseinov

Boris Levitan (7 June 1914 4 April 2004) was a mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering.[1]

Life

Boris Levitan was born in Berdyansk (south-eastern Ukraine), and grew up in Kharkiv. He graduated from Kharkov University in 1936; in 1938, he submitted his PhD thesis "Some Generalization of Almost Periodic Function" under the supervision of Naum Akhiezer.[2] Then he defended the habilitation thesis "Theory of Generalized Translation Operators".

He was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II in 1941, and served until 1944.[3] From 1944 to 1961, he worked at the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy, and from 1961 until about 1992 at Moscow University. In 1992, Levitan emigrated to the United States. During the last years of his life, he worked in the University of Minnesota.

References

  1. Obituary in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Archived April 28, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Math Genealogy page
  3. Kostyuchenko, A.G.; Maslov, V.P.; Sadovnichii, V.A.; Sargsyan, I.S.; Shkalikov, A.A.; Zhikov, V.V. (2006). "In memory of Boris Levitan". Russ. J. Math. Phys. 13 (1): 1–3. Bibcode:2006RJMP...13....1K. doi:10.1134/S1061920806010018. S2CID 120743615.


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