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Nikolay Nekhoroshev

Nikolay Nekhoroshev is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nikolay Nekhoroshev rather than just read about it. In short: Nikolai Nikolaevich Nekhoroshev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Нехорошев; 2 October 1946 – 18 October 2008) was a prominent Soviet Russian mathematician specializing in classical mechanics and dynamical systems. His research concerned Hamiltonian mechanics, perturbation theory, celestial mechanics, integrable systems, dynamical systems, the quasiclassical approximation, and singularity theory.

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Reference excerpt

Nikolai Nikolaevich Nekhoroshev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Нехорошев; 2 October 1946 – 18 October 2008) was a prominent Soviet Russian mathematician specializing in classical mechanics and dynamical systems. His research concerned Hamiltonian mechanics, perturbation theory, celestial mechanics, integrable systems, dynamical systems, the quasiclassical approximation, and singularity theory. He proved, in particular, a stability result in KAM-theory stating that, under certain conditions, solutions of nearly integrable systems stay close to invariant tori for exponentially long times (Giorgilli 1989). Nekhoroshev was professor of the Moscow State University and University of Milan. He was an alumnus of Moscow's boarding school no. 18 (1964). Winner of the Kolmogorov Prize (1997). Nekhoroshev obtained his PhD in 1973 from Lomonosov Moscow State University under the supervision of Vladimir Arnold.

References

Nekhoroshev, N.N. (1977), "On the behavior of near integrable systems", in Anosov, D.V. (ed.), 20 Lectures Delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver, 1974, AMS Translations 2, vol. 109, N.Y.: AMS Bookstore, pp. 87–90, ISBN 978-0-821-83059-8. Giorgilli, Antonio (1989), "Effective stability in Hamiltonian systems in the light of Nekhoroshev's theorem", Integrable Systems and Applications, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 342, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 142–153, doi:10.1007/BFb0035669, ISBN 978-3-540-51615-6. Abramov, A.M.; Arnold, Vl.I.; et al. (2009), "Nikolai Nikolaevich Nekhoroshev (obituary)", Uspekhi Mat. Nauk (in Russian), 64 (3(387)): 174–178, Bibcode:2009RuMaS..64..561A, doi:10.1070/RM2009v064n03ABEH004622.

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Nikolay Nekhoroshev

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In the classroom: Nikolay Nekhoroshev is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1946 births, 2008 deaths, Academic staff of Moscow State University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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