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This essay is devoted to the outstanding Russian mathematician Sergei Mikhailovich Nikolskij. His life, scientific, organizational and educational activities are outlined.
When Sergei Mikhailovich Nikolskij was asked the question: “Who is the best pupil of Andrei Nikolaevich?” he responded: “Me and Arnold, we are the strongest ones”.
A great Russian scholar, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, recognized by almost all reputable scientific communities of the world, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Finland, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Naturalists “Leopoldina”, a member of the International Academy of the History of Sciences and the National Academy of Romania, Hungary and Poland, an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain and the London Mathematical Society, an honorary member of the International Statistical Institute and the Mathematical Society of India, a foreign member of the American Philosophical and the American Meteorological Society; a winner of the most respected scholarly awards: the USSR Academy of Sciences Prize named after Chebyshev and N.I. Lobachevskij, the International Awards of the Balzan and Wolf Foundations, as well as the State and Lenin Awards. The Academician Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, who was awarded with seven Orders of Lenin and the Gold Medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor, simply called himself professor of the Moscow University.
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Two hundred kilometers to the east of Ekaterinburg and one hundred kilometers to the west of Tyumen, on the right bank of Pishma river flowing into the river of Ob. Talica is a regional center of the Sverdlovsk region with twenty thousand people. Mineral water “Talicka” is bottled here in the water-cure resort at the lake of Mayan. Talica was founded in 1732 as a village on the road to Siberia. At the beginning of the last century, this town belonged to the Perm province and was called Zavod (Plant) Talica.
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Nina Ivanovna Nikolskaya (1910–1998), he maiden name was Shlepkina, was born in a small town of Kulebaki, which is located at Oka river and is famous the developed metallurgical production. She graduated from the University of Dnepropetrovsk.
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There are rumors among his students that during the lectures he could get so carried away that he would not notice his wiping the board with a handkerchief and putting a rag into his pocket instead. Students emphasize the depth and emotionality of the lectures. Sergei Mikhailovich was admired by his students. The MIPT teachers and students liked their professor whereas the MIPT graduates gave him the car “Ford” for his 100th anniversary!
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Rusakov, A.A. (2015). The First Student of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov. In: Mityushev, V., Ruzhansky, M. (eds) Analytic Methods in Interdisciplinary Applications. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 116. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12148-2_8
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