Valentina Gorbachuk

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Valentina Ivanivna Gorbachuk (born 1937) is a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, specializing in operator theory and partial differential equations.

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Education and career

Gorbachuk was born in Mogilev on 25 June 1937; then part of the Soviet Union, it has since become part of Belarus. Her parents worked as an accountant and a telegraphist; in search of better work, they moved to Lutsk in what is now Ukraine when Gorbachuk was a child, and that is where she was schooled. [1]

She applied to study mathematics and mechanics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, but was denied because of a "stay in the occupation". Instead, she went to the Lutsk Pedagogical Institute, graduating in 1959. On the advice of one of her faculty mentors there, S.I. Zuhovitsky, [1] she entered graduate study at the NASU Institute of Mathematics, as a student of Yury Berezansky  [ uk ], earning a candidate degree (the Soviet equivalent of a Ph.D.) in the early 1960s. [1] [2]

She continued as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics for the rest of her career, defending a Doctor of Science (equivalent of a habilitation under the former Soviet system) in 1992. [1]

Books

Gorbachuk is the coauthor, with M. L. Gorbachuk, of two books on operator theory, translated from Russian into English:

Recognition

In 1998, Gorbachuk won the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology. [1]

Personal life

Gorbachuk worked closely with her husband, Miroslav L'vovich Gorbachuk  [ uk ] (1938–2017), a mathematician with whom she shared her research interests. [1] Their son, Volodymyr Myroslavovich Gorbachuk, is an associate professor of mathematical physics at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (National Technical University of Ukraine). [1] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Valentina Ivanivna Gorbachuk (to 80th birthday anniversary)", Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology, 23 (3): 207–208, 2017, Zbl   1399.01003
  2. ↑ Valentina Gorbachuk at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Note that this source states her Ph.D. year as 1964; Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology states it as 1962.
  3. ↑ Reviews of Boundary value problems for operator differential equations: J. Wloka, Zbl   0567.47041; J. W. Macki, MR 0776604; J. Mawhin, Zbl   0751.47025
  4. ↑ Reviews of M. G. Krein’s lectures on entire operators: A. Pankov, Zbl   0883.47008; Damir Z. Arov and Harry Dym, MR 1466698
  5. ↑ Gorbachuk Volodymyr Myroslavovich, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, retrieved 2023-03-03
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