Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev ( _ru. Людвиг Дмитриевич Фаддеев), also Ludwig Dmitriyevich (born on March 23, 1934 in Leningrad) is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of Faddeev-Popov ghosts and Faddeev equations.His work led to the invention of quantum groups.

Faddeev was born in Leningrad to a family of mathematicians. His father, D.K. Faddeev, was a well known algebraist, professor of Leningrad University and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Faddeev went to Leningrad University where he was a student of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Vladimir Fock.

Honours and awards

Faddeev is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1976,and a number of foreign academies, including US National Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Sciences. He received numerous honors including USSR State Prize (1971), Dannie Heineman Prize (1975), Dirac Prize (1990), Demidov Prize (2002) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995, 2004). He is a former president of the International Mathematical Union (1986 – 1990). He was awarded the Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences in 2008.

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