Ilia Vekua

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Ilia N. Vekua.
Ilia N. Vekua.

Ilia Vekua (Georgian: ილია ვეკუა) (23 April 1907 in the village of Sheshelety, Sukhumi district, Georgia[1] – 2 December 1977 in Tbilisi[1]) was a distinguished Georgian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells.

Vekua studied at Tbilisi State University. He was made a professor there in 1940. He was also deputy-director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (1954–1959), the first rector of Novosibirsk State University (1959–1964), and vice-president (1964–1965) and president (1972–1977) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1969 he became the Hero of Socialist Labour. Vekua was awarded the USSR State Prize (1950, 1984)[1], Lenin Prize (1963), three Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Badge of Honor. [2]

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  1. ^ a b c (Russian) Ilya Nestorovich Vekua
  2. ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "Векуа", available online here
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