Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov

(1891-1983)

Soviet mathematician

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Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov ForMemRS(Russian: Ива́н Матве́евич Виногра́дов, 14 September 1891 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet mathematician, who was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory, and also a dominant figure in mathematics in the USSR. He was born in the Velikiye Luki district, Pskov Oblast. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, where in 1920 he became a Professor. From 1934 he was a Director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, a position he held for the rest of his life, except for the five-year period (1941–1946) when the institute was directed by Academician Sergei Sobolev. In 1941 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. In 1951 he became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Kraków.

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Born	14 September 1891 Milolyub village, Velikiye Luki uyezd, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 March 1983 (aged 91) Moscow, Soviet Union
Zodiac	Virgo
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