Mikhail Zelikin


Mikhail Il'ich Zelikin is a Russian mathematician, who works on differential equations, optimal control theory, differential games, the theory of fields of extremals for multiple integrals, the geometry of Grassmannians. He proposed an explanation of ball lightning based on the hypothesis of plasma superconductivity.

Biography

M. I. Zelikin was born in Moscow in 1936. He attended Moscow State University in 1953. After graduating from the university in 1958, he works there and in Steklov Institute of Mathematics. He got his Ph.D. under the supervision of Lev S. Pontryagin.
M. I. Zelikin was awarded the Chebyshev Award in 1987 and the Lyapunov Award in 2010.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Apart from mathematics, M. I. Zelikin is also known due to his activity in ecology, in particular, criticism of the Northern river reversal.
He wrote and published a book of memoirs «History of Evergreen Life» about it.

Selected monographs