Russian mathematician (1924–2012)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Красо́вский; 7 September 1924 – 4 April 2012) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who worked in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games.[1] He was the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.
Biography
Nikolay Krasovsky was born in Yekaterinburg (renamed later to Sverdlovsk that year) in the family of a doctor. In 1949, he graduated summa cum laude from the department of metallurgical science at the Ural State Technical University. In 1954, he presented his first thesis and received his kandidat nauk degree in mathematics. In 1957, he defended his second thesis for the degree of doktor nauk and became a professor of mathematics.
From 1949 to 1959, he worked at the Ural State Technical University. Since 1958, he worked at the Ural State University.
- 1949–1951 – assistant at the Ural State Technical University
- 1954–1955 – senior lecturer (docent) at the Ural State Technical University
- 1958–1959 – professor at the Ural State Technical University
- 1959–1960 – chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
- 1961–1963 – chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University
In 1963 Stanford University Press published a translation of his book Stability of Motion: applications of Lyapunov's second method to differential systems and equations with delay that had been prepared by Joel Lee Brenner.
- 1965–1970 – chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
- 1970–1977 – director the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1971–1986 – professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
- since 1986 until his death – professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
- Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
He died in Yekaterinburg aged 87, and was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye Cemetery.
