Mark Iosifovich Vishik and His Work:
Award Ceremony of the Honorary Doctorate
at the Free University of Berlin
Bernold Fiedler (ed.)
Institut für Mathematik I, Freie Universität Berlin
Arnimallee 2-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Mark Iosifovich Vishik
Eberhard Zeidler
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Mark and Asya Vishik with
Eberhard Zeidler |
Dear Mark Iosifovich Vishik,
On behalf of the mathematicians from Leipzig I would like to
congratulate you for being awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the Free University of Berlin.
I remember well your first visit to Leipzig University in the
1980s. You lectured enthusiastically about your new statistical
approach to hydrodynamics. All of us were fascinated by your masterful
approach to a problem of central importance for our understanding of
nature. As a result of your visit, your joint monograph with Fursikov,
'Mathematical Problems of Statistical Hydromechanics', was translated
from Russian into German.
Since your early days you made fundamental contributions to the theory
of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. You have
always tried to obtain theorems which are of strategic importance for
large classes of problems. In 1996 you visited Leipzig as our honorary
guest when the new Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the
Sciences was founded. The year before you visited our institute again
together with your wife. Many young scientists of our institute are
grateful to you for organizing a highly stimulating seminar along with
having fruitful discussions about their own mathematical work.
Dear Mark Iosifovich Vishik,
I wish you and your wife the best for the next years to come.
We are looking forward to seeing you again in Leipzig.
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