mathematics

Semyon Kutateladze

Semyon Kutateladze 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 Semyon Kutateladze rather than just read about it. In short: Semyon Samsonovich Kutateladze (Russian: Семён Самсонович Кутателадзе; October 2, 1945 – January 15, 2025) was a Russian mathematician. He was known for his contributions to functional analysis and its applications to vector lattices and optimization.

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Reference excerpt

Semyon Samsonovich Kutateladze (Russian: Семён Самсонович Кутателадзе; October 2, 1945 – January 15, 2025) was a Russian mathematician. He was known for his contributions to functional analysis and its applications to vector lattices and optimization. In particular, he made contributions to the calculus of subdifferentials for vector-lattice valued functions, to whose study he introduced methods of Boolean-valued models and infinitesimals. He was professor of mathematics at Novosibirsk State University, where he continued and enriched the scientific tradition of Leonid Kantorovich. His father was the Soviet heat physicist Samson Kutateladze. Kutateladze died on January 15, 2025, aged 79.

Selected publications Bair, Jacques; Błaszczyk, Piotr; Ely, Robert; Henry, Valérie; Kanovei, Vladimir; Katz, Karin; Katz, Mikhail; Kutateladze, Semen; McGaffey, Thomas; Schaps, David; Sherry, David; Shnider, Steve (2013), "Is mathematical history written by the victors?" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 60 (7): 886–904, arXiv:1306.5973, doi:10.1090/noti1001. Gordon, E. I.; Kusraev, A. G.; Kutateladze, S. S. Infinitesimal Analysis. Updated and revised translation of the 2001 Russian original. Translated by Kutateladze. Mathematics and its Applications, 544. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002. Kutateladze, S. S. Fundamentals of Functional Analysis. Translated from the second (1995) edition. Kluwer Texts in the Mathematical Sciences, 12. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1996. Kusraev, A. G.; Kutateladze, S. S. Subdifferentials: Theory and Applications. Translated from the Russian. Mathematics and its Applications, 323. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrecht, 1995. Kutateladze, S. S.; Rubinov, A. M. Minkowski Duality, and Its Applications. Russian Math. Surveys, 1972, Vol. 27, No. 3, 137–191. Kutateladze S.S. Choquet boundaries in K-spaces. Russian Math. Surveys, 1975, Vol. 30, No. 4, 115–155. Kutateladze S.S. Convex operators. Russian Math. Surveys, 1979, Vol. 34, No. 1, 181–214. Kutateladze S.S. On Grothendieck subspaces. Siberian Math. J., 2005, Vol. 46. No. 3, 489–493. Kutateladze S.S. What is Boolean valued analysis?[link removed] Siberian Advances in Mathematics, 2007, Vol. 17, No. 2, 91–111. Kutateladze S.S. The tragedy of mathematics in Russia.Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports, 2012, Vol. 9, A85–A100. Kutateladze S.S. Harpedonaptae and abstract convexity. Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2008, Vol. 2, No. 2, 215–221. Kutateladze S.S. The Farkas lemma revisited. Siberian Math. J., 2010, Vol. 51, No. 1, 78–87. Kutateladze S.S. Leibnizian, Robinsonian, and Boolean valued monads, Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2011, Vol. 5, No. 3, 365–373. Kutateladze S.S. Nonstandard analysis: its creator and place. Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2013, Vol. 7, No. 3, 287–297.

See also John L. Bell Paul J. Cohen Forcing Jerome Keisler Model theory Influence of non-standard analysis Nikolai Luzin Leonid Kantorovich Sergei Sobolev Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov Dana Scott

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References

External links Webpage at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics An Heir, Pavel Golovkin's film Semёn Kutateladze about science, innovation and education (in Russian) Semёn Kutateladze about science, innovation and education (in English) Profile at zbMATH Semën Kutateladze on X

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Semyon Kutateladze

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Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Semyon Kutateladze before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Semyon Kutateladze ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Semyon Kutateladze

In research: Semyon Kutateladze appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Semyon Kutateladze in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Semyon Kutateladze is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1945 births, 2025 deaths, 20th-century Russian mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Semyon Kutateladze outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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