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| S.L.Sobolev
with the staff of the Chair of Differential
Equations of Novosibirsk State University |
Sergei L'vovich Sobolev was a
remarkable teacher. His brilliant and vivid lectures were
attended by students of the Leningrad Electrotechnical
Institute, Leningrad,
Moscow,
and Novosibirsk State Universities.
On the base of his profound lectures the textbook
"Equations of Mathematical Physics" and two
monographs "Some Applications of Functional Analysis
in Mathematical Physics" and "Introduction into
the Theory of Cubature Formulas" were compiled. His
book "Some Applications of Functional Analysis in
Mathematical Physics" which appeared in 1950 and was
translated later into many languages, is a deskbook for
all mathematicians working in the field of functional
analysis and differential equations. It should be noted
that in 1978, i.e., 28 years later, this book was
reprinted in the USA.
The ideas by S.L.Sobolev, presented in that book, exerted
substantial influence on the further development of the
theory of generalized functions, embedding theory for
function spaces and partial differential equations. These
books by S.L.Sobolev keep their value for many years,
exert and will exert for long time deep influence on
mathematicians. It was not accidental that in the end of
the 80s and beginning of the 90s a whole series of
revised
editions and translations of Sobolev's books was
published.
The number of Sobolev's students and followers is
enormous. The influence of Sobolev's ideas and methods is
so large that many prominent scientists consider
themselves as his students and followers though he did
not teach them directly.
Sergei L'vovich guided many research seminars at the
Leningrad, Moscow, and Novosibirsk State Universities and
at the Institute of
Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of
Science.
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