Background
He was born in Talitsa, which was at that time located in Permanent Governorate, Russian Empire.
mathematician university professor
He was born in Talitsa, which was at that time located in Permanent Governorate, Russian Empire.
Dnipropetrovsk National University.
He had been an Academician since November 28, 1972. At the age of 92 he was still actively giving lectures in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 2005, he was only giving talks at scientific conferences, but was still working in MIPT, at the age of 100.
He died on 9 November 2012, aged 107.
Nikolsky made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, approximation of functions, quadrature formulas, enclosed functional spaces and their applications to variational solutions of partial differential equations. He created a large scientific school of functions" theory and its applications.
He authored over 100 scientific publications, including 3 monographs, 2 college textbooks and 7 school textbooks.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.