Arif Salimov
Arif Salimov (A.A. Salimov, born 1956, ) 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. Salimov is Full Professor and Head of the Department Algebra and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku State University. He is an author and co-author of more than 100 articles. He is also an author of 2 monographs. 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.) References

External links 
 http://mechmath.bsu.edu.az/en/content/algebra_and_geometry_514 Dep. of Algebra and Geometry
 https://president.az/articles/34950

Living people
1956 births
20th-century Azerbaijani mathematicians
Soviet mathematicians
Differential geometers
21st-century Azerbaijani mathematicians
Baku State University alumni
Academic staff of Baku State University