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Ilia Vekua

1907 - 1977

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Ilia Vekua (Georgian: ილია ვეკუა; Russian: Илья́ Не́сторович Ве́куа; 23 April 1907 in the village of Shesheleti, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (modern day Gali District, Abkhazia, Republic of Georgia – 2 December 1977 in Tbilisi, USSR) was a distinguished Georgian mathematician and engineer, specializing in partial differential equations, singular integral equations, generalized analytic functions and the mathematical theory of elastic shells. Ilia Vekua was born in 1907 in the Georgian village Sheshelety. After finishing school in Zugdidi, he entered Physics and Mathematics Department at Tbilisi State University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilia Vekua has received more than 20,454 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ilia Vekua is the 608th most popular mathematician (down from 574th in 2019).

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ilia Vekua ranks 608 out of 1,004. Before him are Benjamin Peirce, Michael Freedman, Harish-Chandra, Pietro Mengoli, Julius Petersen, and Luigi Bianchi. After him are Grete Hermann, Friedrich Waismann, Richard Montague, Rózsa Péter, Carl Adam Petri, and Jan Śniadecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ilia Vekua ranks 210. Before him are Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Germán Suárez Flamerich, Paula Wessely, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Amir Sjarifuddin, and Vladimir Veksler. After him are Israel Regardie, Gordon Douglas, Gene Autry, Jean Aerts, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, and John King Fairbank. Among people deceased in 1977, Ilia Vekua ranks 144. Before him are Alexander Volkov, Nicolae Kovács, Siegfried Buback, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Eugen Schüfftan, and Eugen Wüster. After him are Pascual Pérez, Rózsa Péter, Gustave Gilbert, Jean Hagen, Richard Addinsell, and Raymond Bernard.

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