Biography:Victor Lidskii

Victor Borisovich Lidskii (Russian: Виктор Борисович Лидский, 4 May 1924, Odessa – 29 July 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russia n mathematician who worked in spectral theory, operator theory, and shell theory. Lidskii discovered the Lidskii theorem in 1959. His adviser at Moscow State University was Israel Gelfand.

References

• Levitin, M.; Vassiliev, D. (2010). "Victor Borisovich Lidskii (1924–2008)". Operator Theory and Its Applications: In Memory of V. B. Lidskii (1924–2008). American Mathematical Society Translations – Series 2. 231. American Mathematical Society. pp. 1–5. Bibcode: 2010arXiv1008.2669L. 

External links

• Victor Lidskii at the Mathematics Genealogy Project