Naum Vilenkin

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Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin, Russian: Наум Яковлевич Виленкин, (October 30, 1920, Moscow — 1991, Moscow) is a Russian mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students.

1 Biography
2 Research monographs
3 Books in recreational mathematics
4 References

[edit] Biography

Vilenkin studied at the Moscow State University where he was a student of A.G. Kurosh. He received his habilitation in 1950. He was awarded the Ushinsky prize for his school mathematics textbooks in 1976.

[edit] Research monographs

Combinatorics by N.Ia. Vilenkin, A. Shenitzer, and S. Shenitzer (Hardcover - Sep 1971)
Representation Theory and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis II: Homogeneous Spaces, Representations and Special Functions (Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences) by A.U. Klimyk, V.F. Molchanov, N.Ya. Vilenkin, and A.A. Kirillov (Hardcover - Aug 26, 2004)
Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions: Recent Advances (Mathematics and Its Applications) by N. Ja, Vilenkin and A. U. Klimyk (Hardcover - Nov 1, 1994)
Representation of Lie Groups and Special Functions Volume 1: Simplest Lie Groups, Special Functions and Integral Transforms (Mathematics and its Applications) by N.Ia. Vilenkin and A.U. Klimyk (Hardcover - Nov 15, 1991)
Generalized Functions. Volume 5. Integral geometry and representation theory by I. M Gel'fand, M.I. Graev, N.Ya. Vilenkin, and E. Saletan (Hardcover - Oct 25, 1966)
Direct decompositions of topological groups, I, II (American Mathematical Society. Translation) by N.Ia. Vilenkin (1950)

[edit] Books in recreational mathematics

In Search of Infinity by N.Ya. Vilenkin (Hardcover - 1995)
Combinatorial mathematics for recreation by N. Ia Vilenkin (1972)
Stories About Sets by N.Ia. Vilenkin (Paperback - 1968)
Successive approximation, (Popular lectures in mathematics) by N.Ia¸ Vilenkin (1964)

[edit] References

F.I. Karpelevich, A.U. Klimyk, L.M. Koganov, et al. "Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin (on the occasion of his seventieth birthday)", Russian Math. Surveys 46 (1991), 251-254.