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Nikolai Piskunov

Nikolai Piskunov

Russian mathematician (1908–1977)

For the Russian astronomer born 1957, see Nikolai Piskunov (astronomer).

Nikolai Semenovich Piskunov (Russian: Пискунов, Николай Семенович) (9 May 1908 – 1977)[1][2] was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He is known for the Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation,[1] a key model in mathematical population dynamics, and his textbook on differential and integral calculus which was used at many technical universities and was translated into several languages.[1]

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Life

He was born in Froltsovo (Ivanovo Oblast) and graduated from Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University in 1929. He received his Doctor of Sciences in 1939. From 1941 he worked at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is a Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1965).[2]

Legacy

The Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Asunción (FIUNA) awards the Piskunov Prize[3] since 2019 to the best two students at the faculty.

Differential and Integral Calculus

Selected publications

  • Piskunov, Nikolai (1965). Differential and Integral Calculus. P. Noordhoff.
  • 29 publications including 14 books according to Zentralblatt MATH

References

  1. [1]
    Bacaër N. (2011) The diffusion of genes (1937). In: A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_20
  2. [2]
    Biography of Piskunov
  3. [3]
    Premios Piskunov
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