Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev
Людвиг Фаддеев
Faddeev in 2010
Born(1934-03-23)23 March 1934
Died26 February 2017(2017-02-26) (aged 82)
NationalityRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Known forFaddeev equations
Faddeev–Popov ghosts
Faddeev–Senjanovic quantization
Faddeev–Jackiw quantization
Quantum dilogarithm
Quantum inverse scattering method
Yangian
AwardsDannie 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
FieldsMathematics, theoretical physics
InstitutionsSteklov Institute of Mathematics
Doctoral advisorOlga Ladyzhenskaya
Doctoral studentsVladimir 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.