Ilia Vekua Ilia Vekua (Georgian: ილია ვეკუა, ; 23 April 1907 in the village of Sheshelety, Kutais

Kutaisi

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 Guberniya

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, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (modern day Ochamchira District

Ochamchira district

Ochamchira district is a district of the Republic of Abkhazia. Its capital is Ochamchira, the town by the same name. The district is smaller than the Ochamchire district in the de jure subdivision of Georgia, as some of its former territory is now part of Tkvarcheli district, formed by de facto...

, Abkhazia

Abkhazia

Abkhazia is a disputed political entity on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus.Abkhazia considers itself an independent state, called the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny...

, Republic of Georgia – 2 December 1977 in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

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, USSR) was a distinguished Georgian mathematician

Mathematician

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, specializing in partial differential equation

Partial differential equation

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s, singular integral equation

Integral equation

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s, generalized analytic function

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s and the mathematical theory of elastic shell

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Vekua studied at Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...

. He was made a professor there in 1940. He was also deputy-director of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics

Steklov Institute of Mathematics

Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute is a research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was established April 24, 1934 by the decision of the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in...

 (1954–1959), the first rector of Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University was founded in May 1959 in the USSR by Soviet academicians Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentiev, Sergei Lvovich Sobolev and Sergey Alekseyevich Khristianovich in a program of establishing a Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences...

 (1959–1964), and vice-president (1964–1965) and president (1972–1977) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Georgian Academy of Sciences

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. In 1969 he became the Hero of Socialist Labour. Vekua was awarded the Stalin Prize (1950), Lenin Prize

Lenin Prize

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 (1963), USSR State Prize

USSR State Prize

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  (1984), three Orders of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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 and the Order of the Badge of Honor

Order of the Badge of Honor

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