Oleksandr Sharkovsky
Ukrainian mathematician (1936–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Sharkovsky.
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky[lower-alpha 1] (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Миколайович Шарко́вський; 7 December 1936 – 21 November 2022) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964.
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Oleksandr Sharkovsky | |
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Олександр Шарковський | |
Born | (1936-12-07)7 December 1936 |
Died | 21 November 2022(2022-11-21) (aged 85) Kyiv, Ukraine |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Other names | O.M. Sharkovskyi, O.M. Sharkovskii, O.M. Sharkovskyy, O.M. Šarkovskii, O.M. Sharkovs’kyi |
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1936-1991) Ukraine (1991-2022) |
Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |
Known for | Sharkovsky's theorem |
Scientific career | |
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] |
Doctoral students | Iryna Sushko |
Website | imath |
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He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1978), and academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006). Prize laureate of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after M. M. Bogolyubov and M. O. Lavretiev.