Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff ( October 30, 1906, Gzhatsk - November 8, 1993, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. Tychonoff originally published in German, whence the transliteration. The English style "Tikhonov" is also commonly seen. Born near Smolensk, he studied at the Moscow State University where he received Ph.D. in 1927 under direction of Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov. In 1933 he was appointed as a professor at Moscow State University. He became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences on 29 January 1939 and a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences on 1 July 1966.