User:Alidev/Revaz Gamkrelidze

Revaz Gamkrelidze (b. February 4, 1927 in Kutaisi, Georgia) is a Georgian and Soviet mathematician known for his work in optimal control theory and related fields. He is the founding editor of Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences.

Life
After secondary school, Gamkrelidze attended Tbilisi State University. In his sophomore year, he went to Moscow to study at the mechanics and mathematics faculty of the Moscow State University where he became a student of Pontryagin.

Work
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 .

In 1954 he began his work on optimal control. He wrote Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes with Pontryagin, Boltyanskii and Mischenko. This work was awarded the State Lenin Prize in 1961. Gamkrelidze is the founding editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences.