Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Belarusian astronomers,
Belarusian computer scientists, Belarusian ethnographers,
Belarusian inventors, Belarusian linguists, Belarusian
mathematicians, Belarusian physicists, Belarusian sociologists,
Zhores Alferov, Solomon Mikhlin, Alexander Bogdanov, Yefim Karskiy,
Boris Galerkin, Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy, Alexander S.
Potupa, Ivan Timokhovich, Oscar Zariski, Yakov Borisovich
Zel'dovich, Oleg Manaev, Boris Demidovich, Barys Kit, Yury
Bandazhevsky, Jaroslav Romanchuk, Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam,
Stanislau Shushkevich, Moisey Ostrogorsky, Vladimir Platonov,
Hienadz Karpienka, Jan Stankievic, Regina Tyshkevich, Vassili
Nesterenko, Nikolai Sudzilovsky, Vincuk Viacorka, Jan Sierada,
Branislau TaraSkievic, Fiodar Fiodarau, Isaac Shoenberg, Mark
Nemenman, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov, Vladimir Ivanovich Mironenko,
Bernhard Baron, Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin, Vital Kramko. Excerpt:
Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin (Russian: , real name Zalman
Girshevich Mikhlin) (the family name is also transliterated as
Mihlin or Michlin) (23 April 1908 - 29 August 1990) was a Soviet
mathematician of Jewish origin, working in the fields of linear
elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best
known for the introduction of the concept of "symbol of a
singular integral operator", which eventually led to the
foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential
operators. He was born in Kholmech, a Belarusian village, and died
in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was born in Kholmech on
April 23, 1908: the document Mikhlin 1968 states that his father
was a small commerciant, but this assertion could be untrue, since
people sometimes lied on the profession of parents in order to
overcome political limitatons in the access to higher education. A
different version, reported by Mikhlin & et al (2008), states
that he was a melamed, at a primary religious school (kheder), and
that the family was of modest means: according to the same source,
Zalman was the youngest of five children. His first wife was
Victoria Isaevna Libina: the famous book Mikhlin 1965 is dedicated
to her memory. She died of peritonitis in 1961 during a boat trip
on Volga: apparently, there had been doctor on board. In 1940 they
adopted a son, Grigory Zalmanovich Mikhlin, who currently lives in
Haifa, Israel. His second wife was Eugenia Yakovlevna Rubinova,
born in 1918, who was his companion for the rest of his life.
According to Mikhlin & et al (2008), he graduated from a
secondary school in Gomel in 1923 and entered the State Herzen
Pedagogical Institute in 1925. In 1927 he was transferred to the
Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State
University as a second year student, passing all the exams of the
first year without attending lectures. Among his university
professors there where Nikolai Maximovich Günther and Vladimir
Ivanovich Smirnov. The latt
