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Vladimir Arnol'd

Vladimir Arnold
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Vladimir Arnold in 2008
Born (1937-06-12)12 June 1937
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died 3 June 2010(2010-06-03) (aged 72)
Paris, France
Nationality Soviet Union, Russian
Alma mater Moscow State University
Known for ADE classification
Arnold's cat map
Arnold conjecture
Arnold diffusion
Arnold's rouble problem
Arnold's spectral sequence
Arnold tongue
ABC flow
Arnold–Givental conjecture
Gömböc
Gudkov's conjecture
Hilbert's thirteenth problem
KAM theorem
Kolmogorov–Arnold theorem
Liouville–Arnold theorem
Topological Galois theory
Awards Shaw Prize (2008)
State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007)
Wolf Prize (2001)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (2001)
Harvey Prize (1994)
RAS Lobachevsky Prize (1992)
Crafoord Prize (1982)
Lenin Prize (1965)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Paris Dauphine University
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Independent University of Moscow
Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor Andrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral students

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, differential equations, classical mechanics, hydrodynamics and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result—the solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957 at the age of 19.

Arnold was also known as a popularizer of mathematics. Through his lectures, seminars, and as the author of several textbooks and popular mathematics books, he influenced many mathematicians and physicists. Many of his books were translated into English.

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was born on 12 June 1937 in Odessa, Soviet Union. His father was Igor Vladimirovich Arnold (1900–1948), a mathematician. His mother was Nina Alexandrovna Arnold (1909–1986, née Isakovich), an art historian. When Arnold was thirteen, an uncle who was an engineer told him about calculus and how it could be used to understand some physical phenomena, this contributed to spark his interest for mathematics, and he started to study by himself the mathematical books his father had left to him, which included some works of Leonhard Euler and Charles Hermite.


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