The Saint Petersburg State University Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty is a research and education center in the fields of Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, and Computer Science.
Математико-механический Факультет | |
 Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at SPbSU | |
| Latin: The Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics | |
| Type | Academic and Research Faculty |
|---|---|
| Established | 1931 |
| Acting Head | E. V. Kustova |
Academic staff | 378 (as of 2009) |
| Location | , 198504 , Russia 59°52′48.66″N 29°49′43.56″E / 59.8801833°N 29.8287667°E |
| Campus | Suburban, Petergof Educational and Scientific Complex |
| Website | www |
  Location in Russia | |
Early History
editIn 1701, Tsar Peter I issued a decree founding a school of mathematical and navigation sciences. In 1724, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academic University of Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the Academic Gymnasium were founded. This marked the beginning of the famous Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. When Saint Petersburg University was founded in 1819, the department of mathematics at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Saint Petersburg University created four departments: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Gradually expanding, this department survived for over a century. By 1930, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics had become a formal union of independent departments: mathematics, mechanics, astronomy-geodesy, physics, and geography (in 1929–1930, the State University Institute of Chemistry and the Faculty of Biology of Saint Petersburg State University had already separated from it). In 1931,[1] the university's faculties were abolished and replaced by sectors: mathematics and mechanics, physics, geophysics, soil science and botany, physiology, and zoology. In 1932–33, the sectors were transformed back into faculties: mathematics and mechanics, physics, biology, geology-soil-geography, and chemistry.
History
editThe first dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (technically, head of the corresponding sector) in 1931 was a postgraduate student of Grigorii Fikhtengol'ts, O. A. Beloglavek.[2] In 1933, Mikhail Subbotin became the dean, leading the faculty until World War II.
In February 1942, Professor Nikolai Vladimirovich Roze was appointed dean but was arrested and repressed shortly thereafter.
In 1945, the faculty was granted the premises of the former Bestuzhev Courses (10th Line, 33). A branch of the faculty was located at 14th Lines of Vasilyevsky Island, building 29.
In 1957, a Computing Center was established at the faculty.
In 1979, the faculty moved to the Petergof Educational and Scientific Complex in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg, in the Petergof district.
For a long time, until the 2011 reorganization, the faculty included scientific institutions—the Smirnov Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at SPbSU, the Sobolev Astronomical Institute, and the Research Institute of Information Technology.
In 2019, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science separated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, along with the building on 14th Lines of Vasilyevsky Island on Vasilyevsky Island.[3]
Departments
editThe faculty consists of 22 departments, one interfaculty department, postgraduate and doctoral programs, the Intel research and educational laboratory, 9 service departments, a scientific library, an archive, and the scientific center "Dynamics." As of October 15, 2009, the faculty had 378 teachers, including 126 professors and 178 associate professors.[4]
| Department of Mathematics |
Department of Mathematical Analysis[5] |
| Department of Higher Algebra and Number Theory | |
| Department of Higher Geometry | |
| Department of Differential Equations | |
| Department of Mathematical Physics | |
| Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics | |
| Department of Applied Mathematics |
Department of Computational Mathematics |
| Department of Operations Research | |
| Department of Applied Cybernetics | |
| Department of Statistical Modeling | |
| Department of Theoretical Cybernetics | |
| Department of Computer Science |
Department of Computer Science |
| Department of Information-Analytical Systems | |
| Department of System Programming | |
| Department of Parallel Algorithms | |
| Department of Mechanics |
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
| Department of Hydroaeromechanics | |
| Department of Hydroelasticity | |
| Department of Theory of Elasticity | |
| Department of Physical Mechanics | |
| Department of Astronomy |
Department of Astrophysics |
| Department of Celestial Mechanics | |
| Department of Astronomy | |
| Interfaculty Department of General Mathematics and Informatics | |
- Olga Beloglavek (1931–1932)
- Mikhail Subbotin (1933–1941)
- Nikolai Roze (1942)
- Ogorodnikov, Kirill (1942–1948)
- Nikolai Yerugin (1949)
- Pyotr Gorshkov (1949–1951)
- Dmitry Faddeev (1952–1954)
- Nikolai Polyakhov (1954–1965)
- Sergey Vallander (1965–1973)
- Zenon Borevich (1973–1984)
- Sergey Ermakov (1984–1988)
- Gennady Leonov (1988–2018)
- Alexander Razov (2018–2022)
- Acting Dean Kustova, Elena Vladimirovna (2022 — present)
Alumni
edit- Mikhail Gromov
- Grigori Perelman (1982–1987)
References
edit- ^ SPbSU Unified Archive, Order No. 76 of Leningrad State University dated 24.05.1931
- ^ "Fomin, D. V. "The Wonderful and Tragic Life of Olga Beloglavek," 2023" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
- ^ "SPbSU to open Faculty of Computer Science in cooperation with Yandex, JetBrains, and Gazprom Neft". VC.ru. 2019-07-14. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "Departments, offices, and other units of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at SPbSU". Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
- ^ "Department of Mathematical Analysis". Archived from the original on 2023-07-04. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
- ^ "From the chronology of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics". Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
External links
edit- Official website of the faculty
- Student website of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at SPbSU
- Mathematics and Mechanics Weeks
- Abramovich, S.; Kuznetsov, N.; Razov, A. (2021). "G.A. Leonov: Eminent Scholar, Admired Teacher, and Unconventional Administrator". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1864 (1): 012066. Bibcode:2021JPhCS1864a2066A. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1864/1/012066.
- I. Grekova, Leningrad University in the 1920s
- S. Ivanov "From the History of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics" Saint Petersburg: Everest - Third Pole, 1997
- Nazarov A.I., "On the Bachelor's Curriculum in Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University," Mathematics in Higher Education, No. 11, 2013, pp. 63-66
- Leonov, G.A., Terekhov, A.N., Novikov, B.A., Kruk, E.A., Nesterov, V.M., "Creation of a Scientific and Educational IT Cluster at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at SPbSU Based on Modern Fundamental Mathematics," Computer Tools in Education, No. 2: 42-57, 2017
- Minutes of the SPbSU Academic Council Meeting (27.05.2019): On the Initiative to Create the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science