Vladimir P. Gerdt (21 January 1947 – January 5, 2021) was a Russian mathematician and a full professor at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) where he was the head of the Group of Algebraic and Quantum Computations.
He also did graduate studies in theoretical physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (1969-1971).
After his MSc he worked as an engineer-programmer (1971-1975) and as a junior researcher (1975-1977) at the JINR Department of Radiation Safety developing software for neutron spectroscopy.
Gerdt designed a number of original algorithms and software packages[2] for the investigation of differential equations as well as for the transformation of polynomial and differential systems into the canonical involutive form that alleviates their analysis and the construction of their solutions.
[3] In the case of polynomial, differential, and difference systems their involutive form is a Gröbner basis.