Alexander Andreevich Samarskii

Alexander Andreevich Samarskii (Александр Андреевич Самарский, 19 February 1919, Amvrosiivka, metropolitan Donetsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – 11 February 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and academician (USSR Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences), specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, finite difference methods.

Samarskii studied from 1936 at Moscow State University, interrupted from 1941 to 1944 by voluntary military service in WW II — he was severely wounded in the Battle of Moscow. In 1948 he received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.). At the same time, he worked with Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov on mathematical modeling of nuclear weapon explosions and electromagnetic fields in waveguides. In the 1950s Samarskii worked on finite difference methods and became the founder of a Soviet school in this field. In 1957 he received his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree) at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics with a dissertation on the solution of nonlinear problems of mathematics using finite difference methods. He was elected in 1966 a corresponding member and in 1976 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was in 1953 a department head at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a professor at Moscow State University, where he also received an honorary professorship. He founded the Department of Computatonal Modeling in the Faculty of Numerical Mathematics of Moscow State University and the Department of Mathematical Modelling at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. From 1991 to 1998 he headed the Institute fof Mathematical Modelling of the Russian Mathematical Modeling Committee (the Russian part of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS)).

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