Boris Mityagin

Boris Samuel Mityagin (Борис Самуилович Митягин, born 12 August 1937, Voronezh)[1] is a Russian-American mathematician.

Mityagin received in 1961 his candidate degree (Ph.D.) under Georgiy Shilov at the Moscow State University[2] and in 1963 his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree).

He was a researcher at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

His research deals with functional analysis and mathematical physics (spectra of Schrödinger and Dirac operators).

In 1966 in Moscow he was (with A. Pełczyński) an Invited Speaker of the ICM.

Boris Mityagin (right) with Plamen Diakov, Oberwolfach 2010