Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov
- Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov (Russian: ??????? ?????´???? ????????) (May 29, 1934 – August 29, 2005) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Born in Moscow into the family of Sergei Vladimirovich Bakhvalov, a geometer at Moscow State University, N.S.
- Bakhvalov was exposed to mathematics from a young age.
- In 1950, Bakhvalov entered the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University.
- His supervisors there included Kolmogorov and Sobolev.
- Bakhvalov defended his doctorate in 1958.
- He was a professor of mathematics at Moscow State University since 1966, specializing in computational mathematics.
- Bakhvalov was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991 and a head of the department of computational mathematics at the college of mechanics and mathematics of the Moscow State University since 1981.
- Bakhvalov authored over 150 papers, several books, and a popular textbook on numerical methods. He had made major pioneering contributions to many areas of mathematics and mechanics.
- Starting early in his career, Bakhvalov formulated and proved important results on the optimization of numerical algorithms.
- In 1959, he determined the complexity of the integration problem in the worst-case setting for integrands of smoothness.
- Furthermore, he proposed an optimal algorithm for the randomized setting.
- These can be considered early results in the theory of information-based complexity. Bakhvalov was one of the pioneers of the multigrid method, contributed to the theory of homogenization, and fictitious domain methods. Bakhvalov supervised 47 Ph.D.
- students and was an advisor to 11 doctorates.
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