What is Vladimir Arnold?
[[File:Vladimir Arnold-1.jpg|thumb|Vladimir Arnold in 2008]] '''Vladimir Arnold''' (12 June 1937 — 3 June 2010) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] of [[Jewish]] descent,<ref>[http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2010-12-78.pdf www.ems-ph.org]</ref> said to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the [[20th century]].<ref name=phys>{{Cite web |url= http://www.physorg.com/news194804767.html |title=Top Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold dies |work=physorg.com |accessdate=3 December 2010 }}</ref> He worked in many areas of mathematics including dynamical systems, [[differential equation]]s, hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, classical and celestial mechanics, [[geometry]], [[topology]], algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, and [[singularity]] theory.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Arnold.html |title=Arnold biography |work=www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |accessdate=3 December 2010 }}</ref> Arnold was born in [[Odesa]], Ukraine. He worked at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in [[Moscow]] and later at the [[Moscow State University]].<ref name=phys/> Arnold died in [[Paris]] after going there to seek medical treatment.<ref name=phys/> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Arnold_Vladimir |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Arnold_Vladimir |title=Vladimir I. Arnold |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==Awards== He would have be given the Fields Medal in Mathematics in 1974, but this was opposed by the Soviet government.<ref name=phys /> His other awards include: * Lenin Prize (1965) * [[Crafoord Prize]] (1982) * Lobachevsky Prize (1992) * Harvey Prize (1994) * World Prize in Mathematics (2001) * Prize of the American Institute of Physics (2001) * [[Wolf Prize]] (2001) ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold, Vladimir}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Catego