Sergey Borisovich Stechkin

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Sergey Borisovich Stechkin (Russian: Сергей Борисович Стечкин) (6 September 1920, Moscow – 22 November 1995, Moscow) was a prominent Russian mathematician who worked in theory of functions (particular in approximation theory) and theory of numbers.

His father (B.S. Stechkin) was an Soviet turbojet engines constructor, academician. His great uncle, N.Ye. Zhukovsky, was a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. His maternal grandfather, N.A. Shilov, was a notable chemist.

Stechkin studied mathematics in Moscow State University, he was a student of D.E. Menshov. Stechkin received his Ph.D. at 1948 with thesis "On the order of best approximations of continous functions".

Later he worked as a mathematician at Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow. He was a founder and first director of department Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Yekaterinburg. Later this department became the Institute of mathematics and mechanics of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Stechkin was also a founder and chef editor of mathematical journal 'Mathematical Notes' (Russian: Математические заметки) [1].

Stechkin was a professor of mathematics in Moscow State University. His honors include Chebyshev Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993)

His contribution to mathematics includes: