17 Facts About Sergey Mergelyan

Sergey Mergelyan was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation theory.

Sergey Mergelyan was a laureate of the Stalin Prize and the Order of St Mesrop Mashtots.

Sergey Mergelyan was the youngest Doctor of Sciences in the history of the USSR, and the youngest corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Sergey Mergelyan was born on 19 May 1928 in Simferopol in an Armenian family.

In 1936 Sergey Mergelyan's father was building a paper mill in Yelets, but soon together with his family was deported to the Siberian settlement of Narym, Tomsk Oblast.

Sergey Mergelyan studied at the Yerevan school named after Mravyan.

In 1943, Sergey Mergelyan won the first place at the republican physics and mathematics Olympiad.

Sergey Mergelyan drew attention to himself at the university, where he during a year passed the first and second courses, and soon began attending lectures of academician Artashes Shahinian, the founder of the Armenian mathematical school.

Sergey Mergelyan passed a five-year university course for three years, in the first year he studied only a few days, then via extern had passed exams and immediately switched to the second, and in 1946 he received a diploma.

The petition of opponents was satisfied, and Sergey Mergelyan became the youngest doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in the USSR at the age of 20.

Sergey Mergelyan has been a symbol of a young scientist in former USSR.

Sergey Mergelyan played a leading role in establishing Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines.

Sergey Mergelyan resumed work at the Moscow Steklov Mathematical Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Sergey Mergelyan had "traveling permission", and often was on foreign business trips.

Sergey Mergelyan has many important results in other areas of complex analysis including the theory of pointwise approximations by polynomials.

Sergey Mergelyan's research was the study of the approximation of continuous functions satisfying the smoothness properties for an arbitrary set and the solution of Bernstein's approximate problem.

Sergey Mergelyan conducted in-depth studies and obtained valuable results in such areas as best approximation by polynomials on an arbitrary continuum, weighted approximations by polynomials on the real axis, pointwise approximation by polynomials on closed sets of the complex plane, uniform approximation by harmonic functions on compact sets and entire functions on an unbounded continuum, uniqueness harmonic functions.