Yurii Mitropolskyi

Yurii Oleksiiovych Mitropolskyi^[a] (Ukrainian: Юрій Олексійович Митропольський; 3 January 1917 – 14 June 2008) was a renowned Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician known for his contributions to the fields of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations. He was born in Poltava Governorate and died in Kyiv.

Yurii Mitropolskyi
Born	(1917-01-03)3 January 1917 Shishaki, Mirgorodsky Uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	14 June 2008(2008-06-14) (aged 91) Kyiv, Ukraine
Alma mater	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Awards	Hero of Ukraine, State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Lenin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labour
Scientific career
Fields	mathematics, dynamical systems, differential equations
Institutions	Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine
Doctoral advisor	Nikolay Bogolyubov
Doctoral students	Oleksandr Sharkovsky

He received his Ph.D. from Kyiv University, under the supervision of theoretical physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogolyubov.^[1] Mitropolskyi is one of the most frequently joint-published mathematicians known, with at least 240 collaborators.^[2] Member of the Communist Party since 1945.

Eponym

• Krylov–Bogolyubov–Mitropolskiy asymptotic method

Selected works

• N. N. Bogolyubov and Y. A. Mitropolskiy. Asymptotic methods in the theory of non-linear oscillations. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1961 (translated from Russian).
• N. N. Bogolyubov, Ju. A. Mitropolskiy, and A. M. Samoilenko. Methods of accelerated convergence in nonlinear mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1976 (translated from Russian).
• Yu. A. Mitropolskiy and A. K. Lopatin. Nonlinear mechanics, groups and symmetry. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0-7923-3339-X.
• Yu. A. Mitropolskiy. Problems of the asymptotic theory of nonstationary vibrations. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1965.
• Yu. A. Mitropolskiy, A. M. Samoilenko, and D. I. Martinyuk. Systems of evolution equations with periodic and quasiperiodic coefficients. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1993. ISBN 0-7923-2054-9.
• Integrable dynamical systems (coauthor).

Notes

1. Also transliterated as Mitropolskiy, Mitropolsky or Mitropolskii

References

1. Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Grossman, Jerrold W. (January 2005). "Patterns of Research in Mathematics" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society: 35–41. Retrieved 16 September 2011.