Nikolai Piskunov
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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
/ref> was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of
partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...
s. He is known for the
Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation In mathematics, Fisher's equation (named after statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher) also known as the Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov equation (named after Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Petrovsky, and Nikolai Piskunov), KPP equation or Fisher ...
, 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 Ivanovo Oblast (russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, ''Ivanovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the ...
) 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 Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute (russian: Математический институт имени В.А.Стеклова) is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part ...
of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is a Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1965).


Legacy

The Faculty of Engineering of the
National University of Asunción National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...
(FIUNA) awards the Piskunov PrizePremios Piskunov
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Selected publications

* * 29 publications including 14 books according to Zentralblatt MATHbr>


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Piskunov, Nikolai 1908 births 1977 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians PDE theorists Soviet mathematicians