Valentin Afraimovich

Valentin Afraimovich (Russian: Валентин Сендерович Афраймович, 2 April 1945, Kirov, Kirov Oblast, USSR – 21 February 2018, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia[1]) was a Soviet, Russian and Mexican mathematician.

He made contributions to dynamical systems theory, qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations, bifurcation theory, concept of attractor,[2] strange attractors, space-time chaos, mathematical models of non-equilibrium media and biological systems, travelling waves in lattices, complexity of orbits and dimension-like characteristics in dynamical systems.

[3] He got his PhD (Kandidat) degree in 1974 at the Nizhny Novgorod State University under the advice of L. P. Shil’nikov.

Also in 1990 he received his Doctor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics, at Saratov State University in Russia.

Afraimovich Award has been granted to outstanding young scholars in nonlinear physical science by NSC since 2020.