Konstantin Adolfovich Semendyayev (; 9 December 1908,

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– 15 November 1988,

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) was a Soviet engineer and applied mathematician. He worked in the department of

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of the

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in Moscow. He carried out pioneering work in the area of numerical

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in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Semendyayev studied at the

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with the degree in 1929 and was then at various higher schools. From 1931 to 1936 he was in the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Lomonosov University. He habilitated in 1940 (Russian doctorate). From 1936 he headed the Department of Mathematical Instruments of the

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. He was evacuated to

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with the institute during

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. After World War II, he headed a department for numerical calculations at the

in Moscow and, when the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the Steklov Institute was founded in 1953, his group became the Department of Gas Dynamics. In 1961, he became deputy head of the Institute for Applied Mathematics. In 1963, he went to the Hydrometeorological Center of the USSR, where he led the programming work. He also supported the teaching of applied mathematics at various Moscow educational institutions. Semendyayev is known as the co-author of a handbook of mathematics for engineers and students of technical universities, which he wrote together with

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around the 1939/1940 timeframe. Hot lead typesetting for the work had already started when the

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prohibited further development and the print matrices were relocated. After the war, they were first considered lost, but could be found again years later, so that the first edition of could finally be published in 1945. This was a major success and went through eleven editions in Russia and was translated into various languages, including German and English, until the publisher Nauka planned to replace it with a translation of the American

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by Granino and

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in 1968. However, in a parallel development starting in 1970, the so called "

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" (BS), which had been translated into German in 1958, underwent a major overhaul by a team of

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authors around Günter Grosche, Viktor & Dorothea Ziegler (of

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), to which Semendyayev contributed as well (a section on computer systems and numerical

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). This was published in 1979 and spawned translations into many other languages as well, including a retranslation into Russian and an English edition. In 1986, the 13th Russian edition was published. The German ' Wende' and the later

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led to considerable changes in the publishing environment in Germany between 1989 and 1991, which eventually resulted in two independent German publishing branches by

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(published 1995–2013) and by & Heiner Mühlig (published 1992–2020) to expand and maintain the work up to the present, again with translations into many other languages including English. Semendyayev has been on the editorial board of the Russian journal ' () since its inception.

Awards and honors

* Three Stalin Prizes (1949, 1951, 1953) * Three

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(1949, 1955, 1956) *

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(1953) *

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" () was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1969 to commemo ...

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Publications

* With Bronshtein: "Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Students of Technical Universities" (

Справочник по математике для инженеров и учащихся втузов ''Bronshtein and Semendyayev'' (often just ''Bronshtein'' or ''Bronstein'', sometimes ''BS'') (Or Handbook Of Mathematics) is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas o ...

), Moscow, 1945

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