Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky
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Oleksandr Sharkovsky | |
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| Born | December 7, 1936 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR |
| Nationality | Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
| Known for | Sharkovsky's theorem |
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| Fields | Mathematics, Dynamical systems, Differential and difference equations, Mathematical physics, Topology[1] |
| Institutions | Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
| Thesis | Some questions in the theory of one-dimensional iterative processes (1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yurii Mitropolskiy[2] |
| Website | imath |
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky (also Sharkovskii) (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Миколайович Шарко́вський) (born December 7, 1936) is a prominent Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964.
Career[]
In 2006, he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the head of the department of the Theory of dynamical systems at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ imath
.kiev .ua /~asharkov / - ^ Alexander Sharkovsky, Mathematics genealogy.
- ^ "Sharkovsky, Oleksandr". Institute of Mathematics. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ^ J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky biography, University of St. Andrews.
External links[]
- Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sharkovsky.html
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