Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky

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Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Красовский, born in 1924) is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of differential games. He is the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

[edit] Biography

Nikolai Krasovsky was born on September 7, 1924 in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) in the family of a known medecine. In 1949 he graduated summa cum laude from the department of metallurgical science at the Ural State Technical University. In 1954 he presented his first thesis and received his PhD degree in mathematics (Russian degree called kandidat nauk). In 1957 he defended his second thesis for the degree of Doctor of Sciences (Russian degree called doctor nauk) and became a professor of mathematics. From 1949 to 1959 he worked at the Ural State Technical University. Since 1958 he works at the Ural State University.

1949-1951 - assistant at the Ural State Technical University
1954-1955 - senior lecturer (docent) at the Ural State Technical University
1958-1959 - professor at the Ural State Technical University
1959-1960 - chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
1961-1963 - chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University
1965-1970 - chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
1970-1977 - director the Institute of mathematics and mechanics of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1971-1986 - professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
since 1986 - professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences