Salimov, born 1956, Azerbaijani: Arif S?limov) is an Azerbaijani/Soviet mathematician, Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan, known for his research in differential geometry.
He obtained a B.Sc.
degree from Baku State University, Azerbaijan in 1978, a PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in geometry from Kazan State University, Russia in 1984 and 1998, respectively.
His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii.
Salimov is currently a full professor in the department of mathematics at Ataturk University, Turkey.
He is an author and co-author of more than 100 articles.
His primary areas of research are:
theory of lifts in tensor bundles
geometrical applications of tensor operators
special Riemannian manifolds, indefinite metrics
general geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product, hypercomplex, Norden structures etc.)