Formally, the Mathematical Division of
Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering was established by a decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR dated October 5, 1987. However, the mathematical departments appeared at the Institute almost simultaneously with its foundation in 1960. At that time there were 5 mathematical departments in the
Institute: • function theory, headed by
Naum Akhiezer; • mathematical physics, headed by
Vladimir Marchenko; • geometry, headed by
Aleksei Pogorelov; • applied mathematics (from 1962), headed by
Anatoly Myshkis; • functional analysis and computational mathematics (from 1963), headed by
Israel Glazman. In the mathematical departments of the
Institute at various times had worked and work now such well-known mathematicians as
Yuri Aminov,
Vladimir Drinfeld,
Alexandr Eremenko,
Boris Levin,
Anatoly Milka,
Iosif Ostrovskii,
Leonid Pastur,
Lev Ronkin,
Fedor Rofe-Beketov,
Mikhail Sodin,
Yeugen Kruslov,
Maria Scherbina, and others. In 1990,
Vladimir Drinfeld, who worked at the Mathematical Division from 1981 to 1999, was awarded by
Fields Medal. == Heads of the Mathematical Division ==