Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov
Mathematician, Author
1934 – 2005
Who was Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov?
Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
Born in Moscow into the family of Sergei Vladimirovich Bakhvalov, a geometer a 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.
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- Born
- May 29, 1934
Moscow - Also known as
- N. S. Bakhvalov
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Died
- Aug 29, 2005
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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