Ivan Vinogradov

Ivan Vinogradov
Иван Виноградов
Vinogradov in 1944
Born	(1891-09-14)14 September 1891 Milolyub village, Velikoluksky Uyezd, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 March 1983(1983-03-20) (aged 91) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	St. Petersburg State University
Known for	Analytic number theory
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	James Victor Uspensky[2]

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ForMemRS^[1] (Russian: Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, IPA: [ɪˈvan mɐtˈvʲejɪvʲɪtɕ vʲɪnɐˈɡradəf] ^ⓘ; 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was born in the Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, where in 1920 he became a Professor. From 1934 he was a Director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, a position he held for the rest of his life, except for the five-year period (1941–1946) when the institute was directed by Academician Sergei Sobolev. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1942.^[3] In 1951 he became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Kraków.