Vladimir Igorevich ARNOLD

Born:

June 12, 1937, Odessa, U.S.S.R.

Education:

1954–1959 Student, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
1959–1961 Graduate Student, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
1961 Candidate of Phys.-Math. Sci., Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow
1963 Doctor of Phys.-Math. Sci., Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow

Positions:

1961–1963 Assistant, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
1963–1965 Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
1965–1986 Professor, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University
1986–pres. Principal Researcher, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow
1993–2005 Professor, CEREMADE, University Paris-Dauphine, France
1995–1998 Vice-President, International Mathematical Union
1996–pres. President, the Moscow Mathematical Society

Awards, Honours and Distinctions:

1958 Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society for Young Mathematicians
1965 Lenin Prize of the Government of the U.S.S.R.
1976 Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society
1979 Honorary Doctor, University P. and M. Curie, Paris
1982 Crafoord Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences
1983 Foreign Member, National Academy, U.S.A.
1984 Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences, Paris
1987 Foreign Member, Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S.A.
1988 Honorary Doctor, Warwick University, Coventry, U.K.
1988 Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
1988 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
1990 Member, Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R. (since 1991 — Russian Academy of Sciences)
1990 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
1991 Honorary Doctor, Utrecht, Netherlands
1991 Honorary Doctor, Bologna, Italy
1991 Member, Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia
1991 Member, Academia Europaea
1992 Lobachevsky Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
1994 Harvey Prize, Technion, Haifa, Israel
1994 Honorary Doctor, University Complutense, Madrid
1997 Honorary Doctor, Toronto, Canada
1997 Petr L. Kapitsa Medal for Scientific Discoveries, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
1999 Fatherland Services Order of Fourth Degree
2001 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
2001 Prize of the American Institute of Physics
2001 Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics

Research Interests:

– Dynamical Systems
– Differential Equations
– Hydrodynamics
– Magnetohydrodynamics
– Classical and Celestial Mechanics
– Geometry
– Topology
– Algebraic Geometry
– Symplectic Geometry
– Singularity Theory

Publications:

More than 300 research articles and more than 30 monographs translated into more than 10 languages