Andrey Tikhonov
Russian mathematician and geophysicist
Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov was a leading Soviet Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the... Wikipedia
Born: October 30, 1906, Gagarin, Russia
Died: November 8, 1993 (age 87 years), Moscow, Russia
Academic advisor: Pavel Alexandrov
Notable students: Alexander Andreyevich Samarskii, Aleksei Sveshnikov, Vladimir Ilyin, and more
Organization founded: MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics