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弗拉基米爾·安德烈耶維奇·斯捷克洛夫 Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (January 9, 1864 – May 30, 1926)

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (January 9, 1864 – May 30, 1926) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

Steklov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In 1887, he graduated from Kharkov University, where he was a student of Aleksandr Lyapunov. In 1889-1906 he worked at the Department of Mechanics of this University. He became a full professor in 1896. During 1893 - 1905 he also taught theoretical mechanics in Kharkov technological institute. From 1906 he worked at Petersburg University. In 1921 he petitioned for creation of Institute of Physics and Mathematics. Upon his death the institute was named after him. The Mathematics Department split from the Institute in 1934. It's now known as Steklov Institute of Mathematics.

Steklov's primary scientific contribution is in the area of orthogonalfunctional sets. He introduced a class of closed orthogonal sets; developed asymptotic Liouville-Steklov's method for orthogonal polynomials; proved theorems on generalized Fourier series. Steklov developed approximation technique later named Steklov function. He also worked on hydrodynamics and theory of elasticity.

Steklov wrote a number of works on history of science.

Steklov died in Gaspra, Crimea, USSR (now Ukraine). He was interred in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

See also

• Steklov Institute of Mathematics
• Poincaré-Steklov operator

References links

• Vladimir Steklov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Vladimir Steklov", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 

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