Mathematician:Sergei Lvovich Sobolev

Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (Russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Со́болев) worked mainly in the fields of analysis and partial differential equations.

Nationality
Soviet Russian

History

 * Born: 6 October 1908, St. Petersburg, Russia
 * Died: 3 January 1989, Moscow, USSR

Theorems and Definitions

 * Sobolev Conjugate
 * Sobolev Embedding Theorem
 * Sobolev Generalized Derivative
 * Sobolev Inequality
 * Sobolev Space

Books and Papers

 * 1936: Méthode nouvelle à résoudre le problème de Cauchy pour les équations linéaires hyperboliques normales (where generalized functions are applied to the problem of solving linear hyperbolic partial differential equations)
 * 1938: Sur un théorème d'analyse fonctionnelle (where the embedding theorem is proved)


 * 1963: Some applications of functional analysis in mathematical physics