Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky

Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky ( _ru. Николай Николаевич Красовский, born in 1924) is a prominent Russian mathematician who works in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems and the theory of differential games. He is the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

Biography

Nikolai Krasovsky was born on September 7, 1924 in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) in the family of a known medecine. In 1949 he graduated "summa cum laude" from the department of metallurgical science at the Ural State Technical University. In 1954 he presented his first thesis and received his PhD degree in mathematics (Russian degree called "kandidat nauk"). In 1957 he defended his second thesis for the degree of Doctor of Sciences (Russian degree called "doktor nauk") and became a professor of mathematics. From 1949 to 1959 he worked at the Ural State Technical University. Since 1958 he works at the Ural State University.
* 1949-1951 - assistant at the Ural State Technical University
* 1954-1955 - senior lecturer (docent) at the Ural State Technical University
* 1958-1959 - professor at the Ural State Technical University
* 1959-1960 - chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
* 1961-1963 - chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University
* 1965-1970 - chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
* 1970-1977 - director the Institute of mathematics and mechanics of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
* 1971-1986 - professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
* since 1986 - professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
* Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honours

* Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1961)
* Full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1968)
* Hero of Socialist Labor (1974)
* Order of Lenin (1974)
* Lenin Prize (1976)
* USSR State Prize (1984)
* Order of the October Revolution (1984)
* Honorary foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1988)
* Lyapunov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992)
* Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ural State Technical University (1994)
* Professor Emeritus of the Ural State University (1996)
* Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1996)
* Demidov Prize (1996)
* Order for Merits befor the Nation of 3rd degree (1999)
* Vonsovsky Gold Medal of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003)
* IEEE Award (2003)
* Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg

Sources

* Information at IEEE server: http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2003controlsys.html
* Information (and photo) at server of Russian Academy of Science (in Russian): http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-68.ln-ru
* "Control under Lack of Information" - Book of Krasovsky and his son, translated to English: http://locus.siam.org/SIREV/volume-37/art_1037155.html
* List of publications (in English): http://www.imm.uran.ru/PERSONS/BIOGRAPH/PUB/KRASOVSK.HTM
* Short biography (in Russian): http://www.eunnet.net/USUbio/?base=mag&id=0128