Arif Salimov

Arif Salimov (A.A. Salimov, born 1956, Azerbaijani: Arif Səlimov) is an Azerbaijani/Soviet mathematician, Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan, known for his research in differential geometry. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Baku State University, Azerbaijan, in 1978, a PhD and Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degrees in geometry from Kazan State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1998, respectively. His advisor was Vladimir Vishnevskii.^[1] Salimov is Full Professor and Head of the Department Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku State University.^[2] He is an author and co-author of more than 100 articles.^[3][4][5][6] He is also an author of 2 monographs.^[7][8] His primary areas of research are:

• theory of lifts in tensor bundles
• geometrical applications of tensor operators
• special Riemannian manifolds, indefinite metrics
• general geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product, hypercomplex, Norden structures etc.)

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