Alexander Samarskii

Alexander Andreyevich Samarskii (Russian: Александр Андреевич Самарский; 19 February 1919, Amvrosiivka, metropolitan Donetsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – 11 February 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and academician (Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Russian Academy of Sciences), specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, finite difference methods.

[1] Born in Amvrosiivka, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine).

[3] At the same time, he worked with Andrey Tikhonov on mathematical modeling of nuclear weapon explosions and electromagnetic fields in waveguides.

He was in 1953 a department head at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a professor at Moscow State University, where he also received an honorary professorship.

Samarskii and his students developed analytic and numerical methods for solving problems in nuclear physics, plasma physics, nuclear fusion, magnetohydrodynamics, gas dynamics, hydrodynamics with radiation interaction, laser thermochemistry, convection, ecology, and autocatalytic chemical reactions.