Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
10 Facts About Andrei Bolibrukh
Andrei Bolibrukh was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem.
Andrei Bolibrukh was born on 30 January 1950 in Moscow and studied at the 45th Physics-Mathematics School in Saint Petersburg.
Andrei Bolibrukh applied modern methods of complex analytic geometry to classical problems about ordinary differential equations and was an expert on Hilbert's twenty-first problem.
In 1989, Andrei Bolibrukh produced his famous counterexamples which invalidated the Josip Plemelj's 1908 solution of Hilbert's twenty-first problem.
Andrei Bolibrukh dedicated much of his efforts to the Riemann-Hilbert problem in order to find full necessary and sufficient conditions for given monodromy data to be those of a Fuchsian system.
In 1994 Andrei Bolibrukh was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Andrei Bolibrukh was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Zurich in 1994.
Andrei Bolibrukh was awarded the Lyapunov Prize from the Academy of Sciences, Russia in 1995.
In 2001 Andrei Bolibrukh received the State Prize of the Russian Federation.