Vladimir Arnold

Vladimir Arnold (1937 to 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem on the stability of integrable systems. Born in Odessa, he solved Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957 at the age of nineteen. His work reached into dynamical systems, singularity theory, catastrophe theory, topology, symplectic geometry, classical mechanics and hydrodynamics, and he co-founded topological Galois theory, KAM theory and symplectic topology. He worked at Moscow State University from 1961 to 1986, at the Steklov Mathematical Institute from 1986 and at Paris Dauphine University from 1993, and was one of the founders of the Independent University of Moscow. He wrote widely read textbooks such as Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics and received the Crafoord Prize in 1982, the Wolf Prize in 2001 and the Shaw Prize in 2008.