Anatoly Mikhailovich Styopin (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Стёпин (may be transliterated as Stepin), 20 July 1940 – 7 November 2020) was a Soviet-Russian mathematician, specializing in

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water i ...

s and ergodic theory.

Education and career

Stepin was born in Moscow on 20 July 1940. In 1965 he graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. There he received in 1968 his Ph.D. under Felix Berezin with thesis "Применение метода аппроксимации динамических систем периодическими в спектральной теории" (Application of the method of approximation of dynamical systems by periodic spectral theory) and in 1986 his Russian doctorate (

Doctor Nauk Doctor of Sciences ( rus, доктор наук, p=ˈdoktər nɐˈuk, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; uk, доктор наук; bg, доктор на науките; be, доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russi ...

) with thesis "Спектральные и метрические свойства динамических систем и групп преобразований" (Spectral and metric properties of dynamical systems and groups of transformations). In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Nice. In 1993 he was awarded the academic title of Professor in Mathematics. Since 1993, he has taught at the department of the theory of functions and functional analysis of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University. In 2009 he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Moscow State University. His doctoral students include

Rostislav Grigorchuk Rostislav Ivanovich Grigorchuk ( ua, Ростисла́в Iва́нович Григорчу́к; b. February 23, 1953) is a mathematician working in different areas of mathematics including group theory, dynamical systems, geometry and compute ...

and Yiangdong Ye. On 7 November 2020, Stepin died at the age of 80.

Awards

* Kolmogorov Prize (together with Boris Markovich Gurevich and Valery lustinovich Oseledets) for 2009 — for their series of works ergodic theory and related topics *Award of the

Moscow Mathematical Society The Moscow Mathematical Society (MMS) is a society of Moscow mathematicians aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia. It was created in 1864, and Victor Vassiliev is the current president. History The first meeting of the society wa ...

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