26 Facts About Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Arnold co-founded three new branches of mathematics: topological Galois theory, symplectic topology and KAM theory.

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was born on 12 June 1937 in Odesa, Soviet Union.

Vladimir Arnold's father was Igor Vladimirovich Arnold, a mathematician.

Vladimir Arnold's mother was Nina Alexandrovna Arnold, a Jewish art historian.

Vladimir Arnold was deeply disappointed with this answer, and developed an aversion to the axiomatic method that lasted through his life.

Vladimir Arnold obtained his PhD in 1961, with Kolmogorov as advisor.

Vladimir Arnold became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1990.

Vladimir Arnold can be said to have initiated the theory of symplectic topology as a distinct discipline.

The Vladimir Arnold conjecture on the number of fixed points of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms and Lagrangian intersections was a motivation in the development of Floer homology.

Vladimir Arnold regained consciousness after a few weeks but had amnesia and for some time could not even recognize his own wife at the hospital.

Vladimir Arnold worked at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow and at Paris Dauphine University up until his death.

Vladimir Arnold died of acute pancreatitis on 3 June 2010 in Paris, nine days before his 73rd birthday.

The death of Vladimir Arnold, one of the greatest mathematicians of our time, is an irretrievable loss for world science.

Vladimir Arnold is well known for his lucid writing style, combining mathematical rigour with physical intuition, and an easy conversational style of teaching and education.

Vladimir Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century.

Vladimir Arnold was very concerned about what he saw as the divorce of mathematics from the natural sciences in the 20th century.

Vladimir Arnold studied the classics, most notably the works of Huygens, Newton and Poincare, and many times he reported to have found in their works ideas that had not been explored yet.

Vladimir Arnold worked on dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, differential equations, classical mechanics, hydrodynamics and singularity theory.

Vladimir Arnold then expanded on this work to show that only two-variable functions were in fact required, thus answering the Hilbert's question when posed for the class of continuous functions.

In 1964, Vladimir Arnold introduced the Vladimir Arnold web, the first example of a stochastic web.

In 1965, Vladimir Arnold attended Rene Thom's seminar on catastrophe theory.

In 1966, Vladimir Arnold published "", in which he presented a common geometric interpretation for both the Euler's equations for rotating rigid bodies and the Euler's equations of fluid dynamics, this effectively linked topics previously thought to be unrelated, and enabled mathematical solutions to many questions related to fluid flows and their turbulence.

The Vladimir Arnold conjecture, linking the number of fixed points of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms and the topology of the subjacent manifolds, was the motivating source of many of the pioneer studies in symplectic topology.

Vladimir Arnold developed the theory of smooth closed plane curves in the 1990s.

Vladimir Arnold conjectured the existence of the gomboc, a body with just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium when resting on a flat surface.

Vladimir Arnold was a plenary speaker at both the 1974 and 1983 International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver and Warsaw, respectively.