Sergey Nikolsky

Sergey Nikolsky
Nikolsky giving a lecture at MIPT, 1997
Born	Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky (1905-04-30)30 April 1905 Talitsa, Kamyshlovsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	9 November 2012(2012-11-09) (aged 107) Moscow,[1] Russia
Alma mater	Dnipropetrovsk National University
Awards	Kolmogorov Prize (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University Dnipropetrovsk National University Steklov Institute of Mathematics MIPT
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral students	Oleg Besov, Petraq Pilika

Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Нико́льский; 30 April 1905 – 9 November 2012) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Nikolsky was born in Talitsa, which was at that time located in Kamyshlovsky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. He had been an Academician since 28 November 1972. He also had won many scientific awards. At the age of 92 he was still actively giving lectures in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2005, he was only giving talks at scientific conferences, but was still working in MIPT, at the age of 100. He died in Moscow in November 2012 at the age of 107.

Nikolsky made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, approximation of functions, quadrature formulas, enclosed functional spaces and their applications to variational solutions of partial differential equations. He created a large scientific school of functions' theory and its applications. He authored over 100 scientific publications, including 3 monographs, 2 college textbooks and 7 school textbooks.

• 1964: Quadrature Formulae, Delhi, Hindustan Publishing
• 1967: (editor): Theory and Applications of Differentiable Functions of Several Variables, American Mathematical Society
• 1975: Course in Mathematical Analysis, 2 vols., Курс математического анализа, Nauka Publishing
• 1975: Approximation of Functions of Several variables and Imbedding Theorems, Springer Verlag (Russian original, Nauka, Moscow 1969)
• 1978,9: (with Valentin Petrovich Ilyin and Oleg Besov) Integral Representation of Functions and Embedding Theorems, 2 vols., Wiley
• 1983: (with Ya. S. Bugrov Differential Equations, Multiple Integrals, Series, Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable, Mir Publishers, Moscow
• 1986: Treatise on the Shift Operator, Springer Verlag (Russian original, Moscow 1980)
• 2002: Operators, Functions and Systems. An easy reading, Volume 1: Hardy, Hankel and Toeplitz, American Mathematical Society

• List of publications, downloadable here: Russian Academy of Sciences
• For Nikolsky's centenary
• Sergey Nikolsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project