Viktor Maslov (mathematician)

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Viktor Maslov
Born (1930-06-15) June 15, 1930 (age 91)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materLomonosov Moscow State University
Known forMaslov index
AwardsState Prize of the USSR (1978); A.M.Lyapunov Gold Medal (USSR Academy of Science, 1982); Lenin Prize (1985); State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997); Demidov prize (2000); Independent Russian Triumph Prize (2002); State Prize of the Russian Federation (2013)[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsphysico-mathematics
InstitutionsLomonosov Moscow State University
Doctoral advisorSergei Fomin[2]

Viktor Pavlovich Maslov (Russian: Виктор Павлович Маслов; born 15 June 1930, in Moscow) is a Russian physicist and mathematician. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his doctorate in physico-mathematical sciences in 1957.[2] His main fields of interest are quantum theory, idempotent analysis, , superfluidity, superconductivity, and phase transitions. He is editor-in-chief of Mathematical Notes and .

The Maslov index is named after him. He also introduced the concept of Lagrangian submanifold.[2]

Biography[]

Maslov was born on 1930 in Moscow. He was the son of statistician Pavel Maslov and researcher Izolda Lukomskaya. At the beginning of World War II, he was evacuated to Kazan with his mother, grandmother and other members of his mother's family.[3]

In 1953 he graduated from the Physics Department of the Moscow State University and taught at the university. In 1957 he defended his Ph.D. thesis and in 1966, his doctoral dissertation. In 1984, he was elected an academician within Department of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.[4]

From 1968 to 1998, he headed the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. From 1992 to 2016, he was in charge of the Department of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University.[4]

Maslov headed the laboratory of the mechanics of natural disasters at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a research professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at National Research University of Electronic Technology and Higher School of Economics.[4]

Scientific acitivity[]

Maslov is known as a prominent specialist in the field of mathematical physics, differential equations, functional analysis, mechanics and quantum physics. He developed asymptotic methods that are widely applied to equations arising in quantum mechanics, field theory, statistical physics and abstract mathematics, that bear his name.[5]

Maslov's asymptotic methods are closely related to such problems as the theory of a self-consistent field in quantum and classical statistics, superfluidity and superconductivity, quantization of solitons, quantum field theory in strong external fields and in curved space-time, the method of expansion in the inverse number of particle types. In 1983, he attended the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw, where he presented a plenary report "Non-standard characteristics of asymptotic problems".[6]

He dealt with the problems of liquid and gas, carried out fundamental research on the problems of magnetohydrodynamics related to the dynamo problem. He also made calculations for the emergency unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during the 1986 disaster. In 1991, he made model and forecasts of the economic situation in Russia.[6]

Since the early 1990s, he has been working on the use of equations of mathematical physics in economics and financial analysis. In particular, he managed to predict the 1998 Russian financial crisis, and even earlier, the collapse of the economic and, as a consequence, the collapse of the political system of the USSR. [6]

In 2008, Maslov in his own words predicted a global recession in the late 2000s. He calculated the critical number of U.S. debt, and found out that a crisis should break out in the near future. In the calculations, he used equations similar to the equations of phase transition in physics. In the mid-1980s, Maslov introduced the term tropical mathematics, in which the operations of the conditional optimization problem were considered.[7]

Personal life[]

In the early 1970s, he met Lê Vũ Anh. She was the daughter of Lê Duẩn, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and was student at the Faculty of Physics in Moscow State University. The romance was considered scandalous because Vietnamese students studying abroad were not allowed to have romantic relationships with foreigners and anyone caught red-handed would have to be examined or may be sent back to Vietnam. In order to avoid trouble, she returned home to marry a Vietnamese student from the same university and wanted to stay in Vietnam to forget her love affair with Maslov. However, she was forced by her father to return to USSR to complete her studies.[8]

When she and her husband returned to Moscow, Anh realized that she did not love her husband and could not forget her lover. She decided to live separately from her husband and secretly went back and forth with Maslov. After being pregnant for the second time, after having a miscarriage for the first time, Anh had enough energy to ask her husband for a divorce in order to be able to marry Maslov. In 1975, she and Maslov married. She gave birth to a daughter on 31 October 1977 named Lena. Meeting her father by chance when he went to USSR for a state visit, Anh confessed all her love affairs. Lê Duẩn did not accept it and tried to lure her back to the country. However, Anh gradually reconciled with her family.[9]

After giving birth to her second daughter Tania, Anh gave birth to her son, Anton, on 1981. Anh died shortly after giving birth to her son, due to hemorrhage.[10]

Immediately after Anh died, a dispute over custody of his three children with his wife's family occurred. An official from the Vietnamese Communist Party's Central Committee took over the communication between Maslov and Anh's family. Both sides proposed a compromise solution, Maslov kept his daughters and son would be returned to Lê Duẩn. Maslov only allowed his son to go to Vietnam for two years. But after the deadline, his son never returned to him. Maslov had to fight for two more years before Lê Duẩn accepted to bring his grandson to meet his father.[11]

However, the son that Maslov met was no longer Anton Maslov as before, but a Vietnamese citizen with the new name Nguyễn An Hoàn and he was unable to speak Russian. According to Maslov, Lê Duẩn does not intend to return the child, but also hopes to bring back his daughters. Fearing the loss of his children, Maslov contacted the son of the President of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Andrei Gromyko, a close friend of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He was advised to write to Gorbachev and was promised to convince Gorbachev to read it. After a massive legal struggle, Lê Duẩn gave up the idea of taking him and his children back.[10]

As of present, his children currently reside in England and Netherlands, where they are highly successful in their respective professions.[10]

Maslov later re-married a woman named Irina, who was at the same age as his ex-wife Anh. Irina is a linguist and she received the title of Associate Doctor of Science in 1991. For the last three decades, he has been living in Troitsk.[10]

Selected books[]

  • Maslov, V. P. (1972). Théorie des perturbations et méthodes asymptotiques. Dunod; 384 pagesCS1 maint: postscript (link)[12]
  • Karasëv, M. V.; Maslov, V. P.: Nonlinear Poisson brackets. Geometry and quantization. Translated from the Russian by A. Sossinsky [A. B. Sosinskiĭ] and M. Shishkova. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 119. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1993.[13]
  • Kolokoltsov, Vassili N.; Maslov, Victor P.: Idempotent analysis and its applications. Translation of Idempotent analysis and its application in optimal control (Russian), "Nauka" Moscow, 1994. Translated by V. E. Nazaikinskii. With an appendix by Pierre Del Moral. Mathematics and its Applications, 401. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1997.
  • Maslov, V. P.; Fedoriuk, M. V.: Semi-classical approximation in quantum mechanics. Translated from the Russian by J. Niederle and J. Tolar. Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, 7. Contemporary Mathematics, 5. D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht-Boston, Mass., 1981.[14]
This book was cited over 700 times at Google Scholar in 2011.
  • Maslov, V. P. Operational methods. Translated from the Russian by V. Golo, N. Kulman and G. Voropaeva. Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1976.

References[]

  1. ^ Viktor Maslov, HSE
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Fiftieth Anniversary of research and teaching by Viktor Pavlovich Maslov" (PDF).
  3. ^ "The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names". www.yvng.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Маслов, Виктор Павлович". www.tass.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  5. ^ Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. August 16-24, 1983, Warszawa
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Академику Маслову Виктору Павловичу - 90 лет!". www.ras.ru. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  7. ^ Medvedev, Yuri (2009-03-12). "Он рассчитал катастрофy". www.rg.ru. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  8. ^ "Về câu chuyện tình của con gái Tổng Bí thư Lê Duẩn với viện sĩ khoa học Nga". www.cand.com.vn. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  9. ^ "Về câu chuyện tình của con gái Tổng Bí thư Lê Duẩn với viện sĩ khoa học Nga". www.cand.com.vn. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Hồi ký của VS Maslov về mối tình với Lê Vũ Anh". www.nguoivietodessa.com. 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  11. ^ "Câu chuyện tình buồn bí mật của Lê Vũ Anh con gái ông Lê Duẩn lấy chồng người Nga". www.ttx.vanganh.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ^ Streater, R. F. (1975). "Review of Théorie des perturbations et méthodes asymptotiques by V. P. Maslov". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 7 (3): 334. doi:10.1112/blms/7.3.334. ISSN 0024-6093.
  13. ^ Libermann, P. (1996). "Book Review: Nonlinear Poisson brackets, geometry and quantization". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 33: 101–106. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00619-2.
  14. ^ Blattner, Robert J.; Ralston, James (1983). "joint review of Lagrangian analysis and quantum mechanics, a mathematical structure related to asymptotic expansions and the Maslow index by Jean Leray; Semi-classical approximation in quantum mechanics by V. P. Maslow and M. V. Fedoriuk". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 9 (3): 387–397. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15224-2.

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