31 Facts About Boris Galerkin

Boris Galerkin's parents owned a house in the town, but the home-craft they made did not bring in enough money, so at the age of 12, Boris started working as a calligrapher in the court.

Boris Galerkin had finished school in Polotsk but still needed the exams from an additional year to grant him the right to continue education at a higher level.

Boris Galerkin passed those in Minsk in 1893 as an external student.

Boris Galerkin regularly published his works in the institutes "Transactions", and since 1915 - in Engineering News.

In 1915, Boris Galerkin published an article in which he put forward an idea of an approximate method for differential equations, in particular boundary value problems.

Boris Galerkin applied his method to a big number of pivot and plate analysis problems.

The distinguishing features of Boris Galerkin's method were the following: he did not associate the method, developed by him, with any variational problem direct solution, but considered it to be common for solving differential equations.

In January 1919, Boris Galerkin became a professor in the 2nd Polytechnical Institute, remaining a teacher of structural mechanics in the 1st Polytechnical Institute mechanical department.

In March 1920, a professor chair in structural mechanics was established at the department, and Boris Galerkin Grigoryevich won it in a competition.

Boris Galerkin took part in a competition for his chair and at the beginning of 1922, he left the mechanical faculty for the civil engineering faculty, which was nearer to him in his scientific and engineering activities.

From 1917 to 1919, Boris Galerkin published a series of works on rectangular and triangular plates curving in scientific periodicals and in the "Russian Academy of Sciences Transactions".

In December 1923, Boris Galerkin was elected dean of the Polytechnical Institutes' civil engineering faculty.

Boris Galerkin proved to be a talented leader of the faculty.

Boris Galerkin managed to neutralize overly active "assistants", who were appointed against his will, and he did not hurry to fulfill the orders of incompetent leaders who were conducting infinite experiments at the higher school at that time.

From 1924 to 1929, Boris Galerkin was a professor in the Railway Engineers Institute and at St Petersburg University.

Boris Galerkin managed to receive governmental approval for the idea to build some other big laboratories for the faculty.

In January 1928, Boris Galerkin was appointed as a corresponding member-elected of the USSR Academy of sciences.

Boris Galerkin was often recruited as a consultant to the designing and construction of serious industrial objects in northwest Russia.

Boris Galerkin was a member of the technical councils of the designing institutes Gipromez and Giprotsvetmet, a member of the academic councils of the research institutes: Irrigation Institute, and the Institute of Structures.

In 1934, Boris Galerkin got two doctoral degrees in technics and mathematics and the Honoured Worker in Science and Engineering title.

Boris Galerkin became a member of the highest Certifying Commission in the State Committee on higher technical education, a chairman of the technical mechanic's group in the USSR Academy of sciences technical section, the headmaster of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Mechanics, the chairman of the Civil engineers scientific society and its Leningrad section.

Boris Galerkin was short, puny, and had a weak voice.

Boris Galerkin's image did not correspond to the status of a serious scientist with big authority, received from the government.

Boris Galerkin drew in generals uniform in 1939 when the VITU of Navy, was a revival on the base of Civil and Industrial Engineering Institute, as the head of its structural mechanics department and the academician became a lieutenant general.

Boris Galerkin Grigoryevich had never been in the army before but had to wear the general's uniform.

Boris Galerkin was shy and when someone saluted him he became frightened and waved his hands.

Some academicians and prominent scientists became members, but only Boris Galerkin Grigoryevich was involved with construction engineering.

Simultaneously, Boris Galerkin Grigoryevich was the city engineering defense department experts group head.

Not long after the Great Victory, Boris Galerkin died in Moscow on 12 July 1945.

Boris Galerkin is buried in the cemetery Literatorskie Mostki in St Petersburg.

Boris Galerkin's name is attached to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations.