Andrey Tikhonov
(mathematician)
Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Ти́хонов; 17 October
1906 – 7 October 1993) was a leading Soviet Russian mathematician and
geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis,
mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of
the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Other transliterations of his surname
include "Tychonoff", "Tychonov", "Tihonov", "Tichonov".
Andrey Tikhonov
Tikhonov in 1975
Born 17 October 1906
Gzhatsk, Russian
Empire
Died 7 October 1993
(aged 86)
Moscow, Russia
Alma mater Moscow State
University
Known for Important
contributions to
topology, functional
analysis,
mathematical
physics, ill-posed
problems;
Tychonoff
spaces,
Tychonoff's
theorem,
Tikhonov
regularization,
Tikhonov's
theorem
(dynamical
systems),
magnetotellurics
geophysical
method.
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Moscow State
University
Doctoral advisor Pavel Alexandrov
Doctoral students Aleksandr
Andreyevich
Samarskiĭ
Alexei Georgievich
Sveshnikov
Biography
Born in Gzhatsk, he studied at the Moscow State University where he received a Ph.D.
in 1927 under the direction of Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov [1] In 1933 he was
appointed as a professor at Moscow State University. He became a corresponding
member of the USSR Academy of Sciences on 29 January 1939 and a full member of
the USSR Academy of Sciences on 1 July 1966.
Research work
Tikhonov worked in a number of different fields in mathematics. He made important
contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and certain
classes of ill-posed problems. Tikhonov regularization, one of the most widely used
methods to solve ill-posed inverse problems, is named in his honor. He is best known
for his work on topology, including the metrization theorem he proved in 1926, and the
Tychonoff's theorem, which states that every product of arbitrarily many compact
topological spaces is again compact. In his honor, completely regular topological
spaces are also named Tychonoff spaces.
In mathematical physics, he proved the fundamental uniqueness theorems for the
heat equation[2] and studied Volterra integral equations.
He founded the theory of asymptotic analysis for differential equations with small
parameter in the leading derivative.[3]
Organizer work
Tikhonov played the leading role in founding the Faculty of Computational
Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University and served as its first dean
during the period of 1970–1990.
Memorial board of A.N. Tikhonov on the
MSU Second Humanities Building where
the Faculty of Computational Mathematics
and Cybernetics is located
Awards
Tikhonov received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the Lenin
Prize (1966) and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1954, 1986).
Publications
Books
Sveshnikov, A. G.; Tikhonov, A. N.
(1978). The Theory of Functions of a
Complex Variable. Mir. (English
translation.)
Tikhonov, A. N.; Arsenin, V. Y.
(1977). Solutions of Ill-Posed
Problems. New York: Winston.
ISBN 0-470-99124-0.[4]
Tikhonov, A. N.; Goncharsky, A. V.
(1987). Ill-posed Problems in the
Natural Sciences. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. ISBN 0-8285-
3739-9.
A. N., Tikhonov; Samarskii, A. A.
(2013) [1990]. Equations of
Mathematical Physics (https://book
s.google.com/books?id=PTmoAAA
AQBAJ) . Dover. ISBN 978-0-48-
617336-8.
Tikhonov, A. N.; Goncharsky, A. V.;
Stepanov, V. V.; Yagola, A. G. (1995).
Numerical Methods for the Solution
of Ill-Posed Problems. Dordrecht:
Kluwer. ISBN 0-7923-3583-X.
Tikhonov, A. N.; Leonov, A. S.;
Yagola, A. G. (1998). Nonlinear Ill-
Posed Problems. Vol. 1–2. London,
Weinheim, New York, Tokyo,
Melbourne, Madras: Chapman and
Hall. ISBN 0-412-78660-5.
Papers
Tikhonov, A. N.; Samarskii, A. A.
(1962). "Homogeneous difference
schemes". USSR Computational
Mathematics and Mathematical
Physics. 1: 5–67.
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.714.1396 (https://
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/sum
mary?doi=10.1.1.714.1396) .
doi:10.1016/0041-5553(62)90005-
8 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0041
-5553%2862%2990005-8) .
Tikhonov, A. N.; Samarskii, A. A.
(1963). "Homogeneous difference
schemes on non-uniform nets" (htt
p://www.samarskii.ru/articles/196
3/1963_016.pdf) (PDF). USSR
Computational Mathematics and
Mathematical Physics. 2 (5): 927–
953. doi:10.1016/0041-
5553(63)90505-6 (https://doi.org/1
0.1016%2F0041-5553%2863%2990
505-6) .
Tikhonov, A. N. (1966). "On the
stability of the functional
optimization problem". USSR
Computational Mathematics and
Mathematical Physics. 6 (4): 28–33.
doi:10.1016/0041-5553(66)90003-
6 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0041
-5553%2866%2990003-6) .
See also
Regularization
Stone–Čech compactification
Tikhonov cube
Tikhonov distribution
Tikhonov plank
Tikhonov space
Tikhonov's theorem on dynamical
systems
References
1. Andrei Nikolaevich Tikhonov (http
s://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=
58042) at the Mathematics
Genealogy Project
2. A. Tychonoff (1935). "Théorèmes
d'unicité pour l'équation de la
chaleur" (https://mi.mathnet.ru/e
ng/msb6410) . Matematicheskii
Sbornik. 42 (2): 199–216.
3. A. N. Tikhonov (1952). "Systems
of Differential Equations
Containing Small Parameters in
the Derivatives" (https://mi.mathn
et.ru/eng/msb5548) .
Mathematical Sbornik. 31 (73): 3.
4. Levine, Howard A. (1979). "Book
Review: Solutions of ill posed
problems" (https://doi.org/10.109
0%2FS0273-0979-1979-14602-
0) . Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society. 1 (3): 521–
525. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-
1979-14602-0 (https://doi.org/10.
1090%2FS0273-0979-1979-14602
-0) . ISSN 0273-0979 (https://sear
ch.worldcat.org/issn/0273-097
9) .
External links
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson,
Edmund F., "Andrey Tikhonov
(mathematician)" (https://mathshis
tory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/
Tikhonov.html) , MacTutor History
of Mathematics Archive, University
of St Andrews
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