Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)

Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist, born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1864. He graduated from Kharkov University in 1887, where he was a student of Aleksandr Lyapunov, and worked there in the department of mechanics from 1889 to 1906, becoming a full professor in 1896. He also taught theoretical mechanics at the Kharkov Polytechnical Institute and from 1906 worked at Petersburg University. In 1921 he petitioned for the creation of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, which was named after him on his death, and its mathematics department became the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He also wrote several works on the history of science.