Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University, NJ
Brief Bio of Speaker: Professor Simon Gindikin is one of the world
leading mathematicians. The breadth of his research is really amazing
- he has made fundamental contributions to such diverse fields of pure
and applied mathematics as Integral Geometry and Representation Theory, Partial
Differential Equations and Complex Geometry, Mathematical Physics and Tomography.
Professor Gindikin is the author of 13 monographs and about 150
papers.
He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the Rutgers
University, an editor of 6 leading international mathematical journals.
Professor Gindikin held visiting positions at the famous universities in
the world and gave numerous invited addresses to the top mathematical
meetings. His outstanding achievements earned him a worldwide recognition
. Professor Gindikin was awarded a very prestigeous Moscow Mathematical Society
Award for young mathematicians in 1963, and in 1998 he was awarded the State
Prize of Russia (the highest scientific award in Russia) .
Professor Gindikin devotes a lot of time and attention to problems of
mathematical education. He is the author of several very popular books about
mathematics, physics and history of science intended for advanced high school
and undergraduate students. His book "Tales on Physicists and Mathematicians"
was published in Russia in more then 600,000 copies by several editions
and was translated into English, French, Japanese. He was one of most active
authors of the wonderful Russian popular science magazine "Quant" and the
similar magazine "Quantum" in U.S.A . Professor Gindikin was very active
in organization and support of the famous mathematical competitions for high
school students - the Moscow Mathematical Olympiads. It should be mentioned
that he himself was among the very best in these competitions during
his own high school years.