Gennadi Henkin belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Gennadi Henkin as Russian mathematician and mathematical economist.
Gennadi Henkin was born at Moscow in 1942. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Central Economic Mathematical Institute and Pierre and Marie Curie University.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics, mathematical economics and functional analysis.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
Recognition followed: Stefan Bergman Prize (2011).
That the work was done from France matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Gennadi Henkin died in 2016, aged 74. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Stefan Bergman Prize — 2011
- Held posts at Central Economic Mathematical Institute and Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Fields: mathematics, mathematical economics and functional analysis
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