Overview
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ilyin (; May 2, 1928 – June 26, 2014) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, Professor at Moscow State University, Doctor of Science, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences who made significant contributions to the theory of differential equations, the spectral theory of differential operators, and mathematical modeling.
Biography
Ilyin was allowed to skip the first grade and start school from the second grade in Moscow in 1936 and finished school with a gold medal in 1945. After graduating from the MSU Faculty of Physics in 1950 with Honours Ilyin continued education at the same faculty as a postgraduate student specializing in mathematical physics. In 1953 Ilyin obtained his Candidate of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics for the thesis «Diffraction of electromagnetic waves on some inhomogeneities», his scientific advisor being Andrey Tikhonov.
In 1958 he obtained Doctor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics for his thesis «On convergence of expansions in eigenfunctions of Laplace operator».
In 1960 he was appointed Professor of the Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University.
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