Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev ( rus, Дми́трий Константи́нович Фадде́ев, , ˈdmʲitrʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ fɐˈdʲe(j)ɪf; 30 June 1907 – 20 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician.

Biography

Dmitry was born June 30, 1907, about 200 kilometers southwest of Moscow on his father's estate. His father Konstantin Tikhonovich Faddeev was an engineer while his mother was a doctor and appreciator of music who instilled the love for music in Dmitry. Friends found his

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playing entertaining. In 1928 he graduated from Petrograd State University, as it was then called. His teachers included

Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ( rus, Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, p=ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf, a=Ru-Ivan_Matveyevich_Vinogradov.ogg; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician ...

and Boris Nicolaevich Delone. In 1930 he married Vera Nicolaevna Zamyatina (Faddeeva). They had three children, including the mathematical physicist

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. Dmitry Faddeev's students included Mark Bashmakov ( ru),

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, Andrei Roiter,

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, and Anatoly Yakovlev ( ru).

Contributions

D. K. Faddeev and V. N. Faddeeva co-authored ''Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra'' in 1960, followed by an enlarged edition in 1963. For instance, they developed an idea of

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to produce an algorithm to find the

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(A - sI)^

of a given matrix ''A''. By iteration, the method computed the

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and

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for A. Dmitry was committed to

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and aware of the need for graded sets of

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s. With Iliya Samuilovich Sominskii he wrote ''Problems in Higher Algebra''. He was one of the founders of the Russian Mathematical Olympiads. He was one of the founders of the a Physics-Mathematics secondary school later named after him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Faddeev, Dmitry Konstantinovich 1907 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians Algebraists Recipients of the USSR State Prize Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Saint Petersburg State University alumni

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