Ilia Vekua

Ilia Vekua (Georgian: ილია ვეკუა) (23 April, 1907 in the village of Sheshelety, Sukhumi district, Georgiaru icon [http://www.math.ru/history/people/Vekua Ilya Nestorovich Vekua] ] – 2 December, 1977 in Tbilisi) was a distinguished Georgian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells.

Vekua studied at Tbilisi State University. He was made a professor there in 1940. He was also deputy-director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (1954–1959), the first rector of Novosibirsk State University (1959–1964), and vice-president (1964–1965) and president (1972–1977) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1969 he became the Hero of Socialist Labour. Vekua was awarded the USSR State Prize (1950, 1984), Lenin Prize (1963), three Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Badge of Honor. [Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "Векуа", available online [http://slovari.yandex.ru/art.xml?art=bse/00012/47400.htm here] ]

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