Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, he made revolutionary and deep contributions in several areas including geometrical theory of dynamical systems theory, algebra, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, symplectic topology, differential equations, classical mechanics, differential geometric approach to hydrodynamics, geometric analysis and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result—the solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957 at the age of 19. He co-founded two new branches of mathematics—KAM theory, and topological Galois theory (this, with his student Askold Khovanskii). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Arnold has received more than 346,361 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Vladimir Arnold is the 185th most popular mathematician (down from 177th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 128th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

Vladimir Arnold is most famous for his work in the field of differential geometry. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field.