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Nikolai Semenovich Piskunov (russian: Пискунов, Николай Семенович) (9 May 1908 – 1977)Bacaër N. (2011) The diffusion of genes (1937). In: A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_20Biography of Piskouvov
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Premios Piskunov
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partial differential equation
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s. He is known for the Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation
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, a key model in mathematical population dynamics, and his textbook on differential and integral calculus which was used at many technical universities and was translated into several languages.
Life
He was born in Froltsovo (Ivanovo Oblast
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) and graduated from Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University in 1929. He received his Doctor of Sciences in 1939. From 1941 he worked at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
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of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
He is a Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1965).
Legacy
The Faculty of Engineering of theNational University of Asunción
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(FIUNA) awards the Piskunov Prize/ref> since 2019 to the best two students at the faculty.
Selected publications
* * 29 publications including 14 books according to Zentralblatt MATHbr>References
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