10 Facts About Sergei Sobolev

Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, FRSE was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations.

Sergei Sobolev abstracted the classical notion of differentiation, so expanding the range of application of the technique of Newton and Leibniz.

Sergei Sobolev was born in St Petersburg as the son of Lev Aleksandrovich Sobolev, a lawyer, and his wife, Natalya Georgievna.

Sergei Sobolev's city was renamed Petrograd in his youth and then Leningrad in 1924.

Sergei Sobolev studied mathematics at Leningrad University and graduated in 1929, having studied under Professor Nikolai Gunther.

Sergei Sobolev worked in Leningrad from 1932, and at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow from 1934.

Sergei Sobolev headed the institute in evacuation to Kazan during World War II.

Sergei Sobolev was a Moscow State University Professor of Mathematics from 1935 to 1957 and a deputy director of the Institute for Atomic Energy from 1943 to 1957 where he participated in the A-bomb project of the USSR.

In 1956, Sergei Sobolev joined a number of scientists in proposing a large-scale scientific and educational initiative for the Eastern parts of the Soviet Union, which resulted in the creation of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences.

Sergei Sobolev was the founder and first director of the Institute of Mathematics at Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk, which was later to bear his name, and played an important role in the establishment and development of Novosibirsk State University.