Background
LAVRENTEV, Mikhail was born in 1900.
LAVRENTEV, Mikhail was born in 1900.
Full member, Ukrainia Academy of Sciences, since 1939 and USSR Academy of Science, since 1946. V.-President, USSR Academy of Science, since 1957. Chra., Presidium, Siberian Deputy, USSR Academy of Science, since 1957.
Director, Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Deputy, USSR Academy of Science, since 1958. Professor, and head of a chair, Novosibirsk University, since 1958. Candidate member of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, since 1961.
Specialist in the theory of functions of complex variables. At present concerned with applied hydrodynamics and explosions. In the latter field he observed the phenomenon of cumulative charge and developed a theory on this basis.
Organizer and member, science expeditions to Dikson Island to study the break-up of northern ice and to Kamchatka to study the possible use of subterranean heat. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1958 convocation. 1931-1941 Professor, Moscow University.
Since 1934 Head,Department of the Theory of Functions, Mathematical Institute, USSR Academy of Science. 1939-1948 Director, Institute of Mathematics and Mech., Ukrainia Academy of Sciences. 1945-1948 simultaneously V.-President, Ukrainia Academy of Sciences.
1950-1953 Director, Institute of Precision Mech. and Computer Engineering, USSR Academy of Science. 1951-1953 and 1955-1957 Academy Secretary,Department of Physico-Mathematical Science, USSR Academy of Science.
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.