Michael Artin (Artinian)
Wolf Prize winner Michael Artin is a German-American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics Department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Life and career Artin was born in Hamburg, Germany, and brought up in Indiana. His father was Emil Artin, preeminent algebraist of the 20th century of Armenian descent. Artin’s parents left Germany in 1937, because his […]
George Adomian
Inventor of the Adomian decomposition method for solving nonlinear differential equations George Adomian (March 21, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American mathematician of Armenian descent who developed the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) for solving nonlinear differential equations, both ordinary and partial. The method is explained, among other places, in his book Solving Frontier […]
Leonid Khachiyan
Inventor of the Ellipsoid method Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist. He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical, it has inspired other randomized algorithms for convex programming and is considered a significant theoretical breakthrough. Early […]
Suren Arakelov
Inventor of Arakelov theory Suren Yurievich Arakelov is a mathematician of Armenian descent known for developing Arakelov theory, a brand new approach to study Diophantine equations in higher dimensions. Biography From 1965 onwards Arakelov attended the Mathematics department of Moscow State University, where he graduated in 1971. In 1974, Arakelov received his candidate of sciences degree from the Steklov Institute in Moscow, under the […]
Sergey Mergelyan
Inventor of the Mergelyan’s theorem Sergey Mergelyan was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan’s classical work. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1953), member of NAS ASSR (since 1956). The surname « Mergelov » given at birth was changed for patriotic reasons to the […]
Emil Artin (Artinian)
Co-founder of modern abstract algebra Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent. Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number theory, contributing largely to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields. Along with Emmy Noether, he is […]
