Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin was a Soviet mathematician, an expert in representation theory, the theory of special functions, functional analysis, and combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at... Wikipedia
Born: October 30, 1920, Moscow, Russia
Died: October 19, 1991 (age 70 years), Moscow, Russia
Books
Successive approximation : survey of recent East European mathematical literature
1964
Representation of Lie groups and special functions
Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions: Volume 3: Classical and Quantum Groups and Special Functions
Stories about sets
1968
Combinatorics: Transl. by A. Shenitzer and S. Shenitz E R
2014
In search of infinity
2013