Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev was a Russian mathematician.
Background
Dmitri was born June 30, 1907, about 200 kilometers southwest of Moscow on his father"s estate. His father Konstantin Tikhonovich Faddeev was an engineer while his mother was a doctor and appreciator of music who instilled the love for music in Dmitri.
Education
In 1928 he graduated from Petrograd State University, as it was then called.
Career
Friends found his piano playing entertaining. The couple also wrote Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra in 1960 with an enlarged edition in 1963. Foreign instance, they developed an idea of Urbain Leverrier to produce an algorithm to find the resolvent matrix of a given matrix A. By iteration, the method computed the adjugate matrix and characteristic polynomial for A.
Dmitri was committed to mathematics education and aware of the need for graded sets of mathematical exercises.
With Iliya Samuilovich Sominskii he wrote Problems in Higher Algebra.
He was one of the founders of the Russian Mathematical Olympiads.
Membership
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.