Oleg Besov Explained

Birth Place:	Moscow, Russia
Nationality:	Russian
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Alma Mater:	Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Thesis Title:	On a family of functional spaces: embedding and extension theorems
Thesis Year:	1960
Doctoral Advisor:	Sergey Nikolsky
Known For:	Besov space Besov measure
Awards:	USSR State Prize (1977)

Oleg Vladimirovich Besov (Russian: Олег Владимирович Бесов; born 1933) is a Russian mathematician. He heads the Department of Function Theory at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where he defended his PhD in 1960 and habilitation in 1966. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice.^[1] He is professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1990) and European Academy of Sciences (since 2002). A festschrift was published in honor of Besov's 70th birthday.^[2]

See also

• Besov space

Selected publications

• with Valentin Petrovich Ilʹin and Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Nikolʹskiĭ: Integral representations of functions and imbedding theorems. Vol. 1. V. H. Winston & Sons, 1978. Vol. 2, 1979.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Besov, O. V. "Théorèmes de plongement des espaces fonctionnels." Congrès int. des Math., Nice, Tome 2 (1970): 467–473.
2. Book: Function Spaces, Approximations, and Differential Equations: Collected Papers Dedicated to Oleg Vladimirovich Besov on His 70th Birthday. 2003. Maik Nauka/Interperiodica Pub..
3. Krantz, Steven G.. Steven G. Krantz. Review: Integral representations of functions and imbedding theorems by Oleg V. Besov, Valentin P. Il'in and Sergei M. Nikol'skiĭ. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1980. 2. 1. 216–222. 10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14727-8. free.