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Moscow State University.
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Yevgeni Mikhailovich Nikishin
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Career
Nikishin earned in 1969 his candidate doctorate at Moscow State University and in 1971 his habilitation (Russian doctorate) at the Steklov Institute under Pyotr Ulyanov (1928–2006). In 1977 he became a professor at Moscow State University, where he remained until his death after a long illness. He worked on approximation theory, especially Padé approximants.
Nikishin systems of functions are named after him.
Also named in his honour is the Nikishin-Stein factorisation theorem, which is a 1970 generalization by Nikishin of the Stein factorisation theorem. Nikishin also did research on rational approximations in number theory and wrote a monograph on such approximations in a unified approach that also treated rational approximations in function spaces.
In 1978 he was an Invited Speaker (The Padé Approximants) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki.
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Nationality
Soviet Union
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Salem Prize
The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.