Ludvig Faddeev | |
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Людвиг Фаддеев | |
.jpg) Faddeev in 2010 | |
| Born | 23 March 1934 |
| Died | 26 February 2017 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | Faddeev equations Faddeev–Popov ghosts Faddeev–Senjanovic quantization Faddeev–Jackiw quantization Quantum dilogarithm Quantum inverse scattering method Yangian |
| Awards | Dannie Heineman Prize (1975) Dirac Prize (1990) Max Planck Medal (1996) Pomeranchuk Prize (2002) Demidov Prize (2002) Poincaré Prize (2006) Shaw Prize (2008) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Steklov Institute of Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Olga Ladyzhenskaya |
| Doctoral students | Vladimir Buslaev Nicolai Reshetikhin Samson Shatashvili Evgeny Sklyanin Leon Takhtajan Vladimir Korepin |
Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also Ludwig Dmitriyevich; Russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the quantum-mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path-integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction of the Faddeev–Popov ghosts (with Victor Popov). He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.