Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky

Oleksandr Sharkovsky
Born	December 7, 1936 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
Residence	Kiev, Ukraine
Nationality	Ukraine
Fields	Mathematics, Dynamical systems, Differential and difference equations, Mathematical physics, Topology [1]
Institutions	Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Alma mater	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Thesis	Some questions in the theory of one-dimensional iterative processes (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Yurii Mitropolskiy [2]
Known for	Sharkovsky's theorem
Website imath.kiev.ua/~asharkov/

Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Sharkovsky (also Sharkovskii) (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Миколайович Шарко́вський) (born December 7, 1936) is a prominent Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964.

Career

In 2006, he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the head of the department of the Theory of dynamical systems at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.^{[3] [4]}

References

1. imath.kiev.ua/~asharkov/
2. Alexander Sharkovsky, Mathematics genealogy.
3. "Sharkovsky, Oleksandr". Institute of Mathematics. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
4. J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky biography, University of St. Andrews.

External links

• Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sharkovsky.html