Mathematician:Maks Aizikovich Akivis

Mathematician
Russian mathematician who worked mainly in the fields of differential geometry and linear algebra.

Student of.

Nationality
Russian

History

 * Born: January 5, 1923 in Novosibirsk, USSR
 * 1940: Entered the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University
 * 1942 to 1945: Served in the Soviet Army: participated in liberation of Prague and capture of Berlin
 * 1945: Resumed studies at Moscow State University
 * 1948: expelled for ideological reasons
 * 1956 to 1960: Taught at the Tula Mechanical Institute
 * 1958: Defended Ph. D. thesis summarizing results of undergraduate work
 * 1960 to 1994: Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys
 * 1964: Defended a second (Doctor of Science) dissertation
 * 1965: Became a full professor

Publications

 * 1969: Tensor Calculus (with )
 * 1972: (first four chapters of the 1969 work Tensor Calculus, translated by )