Sergei Vasilyevich Fomin was a Soviet mathematician who was co-author with Andrey Kolmogorov of Introductory real analysis, and co-author with Israel Gelfand of Calculus of Variations, both books that are widely read in Russian and in English.... Wikipedia
Born: December 9, 1917, Moscow, Russia
Died: August 17, 1975 (age 57 years), Vladivostok, Russia
Notable students: Viktor Maslov and D. P. Zhelobenko