Revaz Valerianovic Gamkrelidze (Georgian: რევაზ ვალერის ძე გამყრელიძე, ISO 9984: Revaz Valeris je Gamqrelije; born February 4, 1927) is a Georgian and Soviet mathematician known for his work in optimal control theory and related fields.
After secondary school, Gamkrelidze attended Tbilisi State University.
[3] At Moscow State University he initially worked in the fields of algebraic geometry and topology, and derived what is now known as Gamkrelidze's formula.
He wrote Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes with Pontryagin, Boltyanskii and Mishchenko.
This work was awarded the State Lenin Prize for Science and Technology in 1962.