Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky (also Sharkovskii) (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Миколайович Шарко́вський) (born December 7, 1936) is a prominent Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Sharkovsky.
Oleksandr Sharkovsky
Born (1936-12-07) December 7, 1936
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkraine
Alma materTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Known forSharkovsky's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Dynamical systems, Differential and difference equations, Mathematical physics, Topology [1]
InstitutionsInstitute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
ThesisSome questions in the theory of one-dimensional iterative processes (1961)
Doctoral advisorYurii Mitropolskiy [2]
Websiteimath.kiev.ua/~asharkov/

Career

In 2006, he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the head of the department of the Theory of dynamical systems at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[3][4]

References
  1. imath.kiev.ua/~asharkov/
  2. Alexander Sharkovsky, Mathematics genealogy.
  3. "Sharkovsky, Oleksandr". Institute of Mathematics. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  4. J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky biography, University of St. Andrews.
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