13 Facts About Mark Vishik

Mark Vishik was a Soviet mathematician who worked in the field of partial differential equations.

In Lwow, Mark Vishik visited the fifth gymnasium, which specialized in physics and mathematics.

Mark Vishik began studying mathematics at the University of Lviv in December 1939, at the time when the Lwow school mathematics was still active.

In June 1941, during the occupation of Lwow the Germans, Vishik left the city with a Komsomol group.

Mark Vishik then joined the retreating army and on foot reached Ternopil and then Zhmerynka and in two more weeks got by means of a freight train to Kiev.

Mark Vishik was a student at the pedagogical university in Krasnodar, but because of advancing German troops he then fled further to Makhachkala, where he studied for a year.

Mark Vishik fell ill with malaria, but managed to hide on a military train in the fall of 1942 and reached Tbilisi.

Mark Vishik was already acquainted with Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, mathematician and president in 1941, founded the Georgian Academy of Sciences, whom he met during Muskhelishvili's visit to Lwow and was therefore ready to start studying in Tbilisi.

Mark Vishik received his doctorate in 1947 at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, and defended his thesis under Ivan G Petrovsky and Sergey L Sobolev.

Mark Vishik's dissertation was a generalization of the work The method of orthogonal projection in potential theory by Hermann Weyl, which he read with no knowledge of English.

Since 1965, Mark Vishik was a professor at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University in Moscow.

Mark Vishik had 48 students and was the author of several books and more than 250 articles.

Mark Vishik was a member of the Italian Academy of Sciences since 1994.