Vladimir Boltyansky
Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Болтя́нский; born 26 April 1925 in Moscow), also transliterated as Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, or Boltjansky, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, educator and author of popular mathematical books and articles. He is best known for his books on topology, combinatorial geometry and Hilbert's third problem.
[edit] Biography
Boltyansky was born to Jewish parents in Moscow.[1] He served in the Soviet army during the World War II, when he was a signaller on the 2nd Belorussian Front.[2] He graduated from Moscow University in 1948, where his advisor was Lev Pontryagin. He defended his "Doktor nauk in physics and mathematics" (higher doctorate) degree in 1955, became a professor in 1959.
Boltyansky was awarded the Lenin Prize (for the work led by Pontryagin, Gamkrelidze, and Mishchenko) for applications of differential equations to optimal control.[when?] In 1967 he received Uzbek SSR prize for the work on ordered rings. He currently teaches at CIMAT.[citation needed]
He is the corresponding member of Russian Academy of Pedagogy. He is the author of over 200 books and mathematical articles.
