1. Vasily Sergeyevich Vladimirov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional Tauberian theorems.
Vasily Vladimirov then went to a 7-year school in 1934, but transferred to the Leningrad Technical School of Hydrology and Meteorology in 1937.
Vasily Vladimirov served in several different units, mainly as part of air-defense system of Leningrad.
Vasily Vladimirov was given the rank of sergeant major in the reserves after the war and permitted to return to his study.
When he returned to university, Vasily Vladimirov shifted his focus of interest from physics to number theory.
Vasily Vladimirov worked with Vitalevich Kantorovich calculating critical parameters of certain simple nuclear systems.
Vasily Vladimirov developed new techniques for the numerical solution of boundary value problems, especially for solving the kinetic equation of neutron transfer in nuclear reactors in 1952, which is known as Vladimirov method.
Vasily Vladimirov continued working on mathematics for atomic bomb in the Central Scientific Research Institute for Artillery Armaments, where he served as Senior Researcher in 1955.
Vasily Vladimirov moved to Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, in 1956, under the supervision of Nikolay Nikolaevich Bogolyubov.
Vasily Vladimirov defended his doctoral thesis in 1958, which contains the renowned 'Vladimirov variational principle'.