Background
Nikolay Krasovsky was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) in the family of a known doctor.
Nikolay Krasovsky was born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) in the family of a known doctor.
In 1949, he graduated summa cum laude from the department of metallurgical science at the Ural State Technical University.
He was the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games. In 1954, he presented his first thesis and received his kandidat nauk degree in mathematics. From 1949 to 1959, he worked at the Ural State Technical University.
Since 1958, he worked at the Ural State University.
1949–1951 – assistant at the Ural State Technical University 1954–1955 – senior lecturer (docent) at the Ural State Technical University 1958–1959 – professor at the Ural State Technical University 1959–1960 – chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University 1961–1963 – chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University In 1963 Stanford University Press published a translation of his book Stability of Motion: applications of Lyapunov"s second method to differential systems and equations with delay that had been prepared by Joel Lee Brenner. 1965–1970 – chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University 1970–1977 – director the Institute of mathematics and mechanics of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1971–1986 – professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University since 1986 until his death – professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Krasovsky died in Yekaterinburg.
Hero of Socialist Labor (1974).
In 1957, he defended his second thesis for the degree of doktor nauk and became a professor of mathematics.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
Honorary foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1988).