Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev during a talk at Aarhus University, August 2010
Born (1934-03-23)23 March 1934
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died 26 February 2017(2017-02-26) (aged 82)
Nationality Russian
Fields Mathematics, theoretical physics
Institutions Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Alma mater Saint Petersburg State University
Doctoral advisor Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Doctoral students Vladimir Buslaev
Petr Kulish
Nicolai Reshetikhin
Samson Shatashvili
Leon Takhtajan
Vladimir Korepin
Alexander Its
Known for Faddeev–Popov ghosts
Faddeev equations
Faddeev–Senjanovic quantization
Faddeev–Jackiw quantization
Notable awards Dannie Heineman Prize (1975)
Dirac Prize (1990)
Max Planck Medal (1996)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2002)
Demidov Prize (2002)
Poincaré Prize (2006)
Shaw Prize (2008)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013)

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also Ludwig Dmitriyevich; Russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.

Biography

Faddeev was born in Leningrad to a family of mathematicians. His father, Dmitry Faddeev, was a well known algebraist, professor of Leningrad University and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His mother, Vera Faddeeva, was known for her work in numerical linear algebra. Faddeev attended Leningrad University, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1956. He enrolled in physics, rather than mathematics, "to be independent of [his] father".[1] Nevertheless, he received a solid education in mathematics as well "due to the influence of V. A. Fock and V. I. Smirnov".[1] His doctoral work, on scattering theory, was completed in 1959 under the direction of Olga Ladyzhenskaya.

From 1976 to 2000, Faddeev was head of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (PDMI RAS).[2] He was an invited visitor to the CERN Theory Division for the first time in 1973 and made several further visits there.[3]

In 1988 he founded the Euler International Mathematical Institute, now a department of PDMI RAS.[2][4]

Honours and awards

Faddeev was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1976, and was a member of a number of foreign academies, including the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society.[5] He received numerous honors including USSR State Prize (1971), Dannie Heineman Prize (1975),[6] Dirac Prize (1990), an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden,[7] Max Planck Medal (1996), Demidov Prize (2002 - "For outstanding contribution to the development of mathematics, quantum mechanics, string theory and solitons") and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995, 2004). He was president of the International Mathematical Union (1986–1990). He was awarded the Henri Poincaré Prize[8] in 2006 and the Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences in 2008.[9] Also the Karpinsky International Prize and the Max Planck Medal (German Physical Society). He also received the Lomonosov Gold Medal for 2013.

Faddeev also received state awards:

List of publications

Selected works

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Autobiography of Ludwig Faddeev". Shaw Prize Foundation. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  2. 1 2 "St. Petersburg Department of V. A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences". Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  3. ↑ Aref'eva, Irina; Slavnov, Andrey. "Ludwig Faddeev 1934-2017". CERN Courier. 57 (4): 55.
  4. ↑ "The Euler International Mathematical Institute". Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "Professor Ludwig Dmitrievich Faddeev ForMemRS". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  6. ↑ "1975 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  7. ↑ http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/
  8. ↑ "The Henri Poincaré Prize". International Association of Mathematical Physics. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  9. ↑ "Announcement and Citation: The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2008". Shaw Prize Foundation. Retrieved 5 February 2011.

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