Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov

1891 - 1983

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country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Soviet Union

native language: Russian

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg State University

occupation: mathematician, university teacher

award received: Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, Lenin Prize, Medal "Veteran of Labour", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Lomonosov Gold Medal, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Foreign Member of the Royal Society

position held: director

student of: Andrey Markov

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov (Russian: Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, IPA: [ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf] ; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was born in the Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, where in 1920 he became a Professor. From 1934 he was a Director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, a position he held for the rest of his life, except for the five-year period (1941–1946) when the institute was directed by Academician Sergei Sobolev. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1942. In 1951 he became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Kraków. Source: Wikipedia (en)