Vladimir Igorevich ARNOLD

    Address:

    Steklov Mathematical Institute
    8, Gubkina Street
    117966-GSP-1 Moscow
    Russia

    Phone: (7) 095-135 1490 / 135 2291
    Fax: (7)095 - 135 05 55
    E-Mail: arnold@genesis.mi.ras.ru

    from Jan - July:
    CEREMADE
    Univ. Paris IX - Dauphine
    Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny
    F-75775 Paris Cedex 16
    France

    Phone: (33) 01 44 05 48 72
    Fax: 01 44 05 45 99
    E-Mail: arnold@paris9.dauphine.fr or arnold@ceremade.dauphine.fr

    Born:

    June 12, 1937, Odessa, U.S.S.R.

    Education:

    1954 - 1961 Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov University, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
    1961 Candidate Phys.-Math Sci. at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow
    1963 Ph.D., Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow

    Positions:

    1961 - 1965 Assistant, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov University, Moscow
    1965 - 1986 Professor, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov University, Moscow
    1986 - Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow
    1993 - CEREMADE, University Paris-Dauphine
    1995 - 1998 Vice-President, International Mathematical Union

    Selected Awards, Honours and Distinctions:

    1958 Award of the Mathematical Society of Moscow
    1965 Lenin Award of the Government of the U.S.S.R.
    1976 Honorary Member, London Mathematical Society
    1979 Honorary Doctor, University P. and M. Curie, Paris
    1982 Carfoord Award of the Swedish Academy
    1983 Foreign Member, National Academy, U.S.A.
    1984 Foreign Member, Academy of Sciences, Paris
    1987 Foreign Member, Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S.A.
    1988 Honorary Doctor, Warwick University, Coventry
    1988 Foreign Member, Royal Soc. London, GB
    1988 Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
    1990 Member, Academy of Sciences, Russia
    1990 Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
    1991 Honorary Doctor, Utrecht
    1991 Honorary Doctor, Bologna
    1991 Member, Academy of Natural Sciences, Russia
    1991 Member, Academia Europaea
    1992 Lobachevsky Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
    1994 Harvey Prize Technion Award
    1994 Honorary Doctor, University of Madrid, Complutense

    Research Interests:

    Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, Hydrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Classical and Celestial Mechanics, Geometry, Topology, Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry, Singularity Theory

    Selected Publications:

    1. Small denominators and problems on the stability of motions in the classical and celestial mechanics.
      Uspehy Math. Nauk, 1963, 18:6, 91 - 192

    2. On the nonstability of dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom.
      Doklady, 1964,156:1, 9 - 12

    3. Sur la geometrie differentielle des groupes de Lie de dimension infinie et ses applications a l`hydrodynamique des fluides parfaits.
      Ann. Inst. Fourier, 1966, 16:1, 319 - 361

    4. On the dispositions of ovals of real plane algebraic curves, involutions of four-dimensional smooth manifolds and arithmetics of integer quadratic forms.
      FAA, 1971, 5:3, 1 - 9

    5. Singularities of Caustics and Wave Fronts.
      Kluwer, 1990

    6. Topological Invariants of Plane Curves and Caustics.
      Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures, Rutgers University. University Lecture Series, vol. 5 AMS, Providence, 1994, 60 pp.

    More than 200 articles and more than 20 books translated in more than 10 languages