Vadim Mogilnitsky is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Vadim Mogilnitsky as Russian mathematician (1935-2012).
Vadim Mogilnitsky was born at Odesa in 1935. His recorded nationality is Russia. He studied at Odesa University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at South Ural State University.
The recorded fields of work are complex analysis.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Russia matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Vadim Mogilnitsky died in 2012, aged 77. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at South Ural State University
- Fields: complex analysis
