Nikolay Krasovsky

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who worked in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games. He was the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

Biography

Nikolay Krasovsky was born in Yekaterinburg in the family of a doctor. In 1949, he graduated summa cum laude from the department of metallurgical science at the Ural State Technical University. In 1954, he presented his first thesis and received his Candidate of Sciences degree in mathematics. In 1957, he defended his second thesis for the degree of Doctor of Sciences and became a professor of mathematics.
From 1949 to 1959, he worked at the Ural State Technical University. Since 1958, he worked at the Ural State University.

1949–1951 – assistant at the Ural State Technical University
1954–1955 – associate professor at the Ural State Technical University
1958–1959 – professor at the Ural State Technical University
1959–1960 – chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
1961–1963 – chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University

In 1963 Stanford University Press published a translation of his book Stability of Motion: applications of Lyapunov's second method to differential systems and equations with delay that had been prepared by Joel Lee Brenner.

1965–1970 – chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
1970–1977 – director the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1971–1986 – professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University
since 1986 until his death – professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University
Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

He died in Yekaterinburg aged 87, and was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye Cemetery.

Honours

Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Lenin Prize - for his work in mathematical control theory
USSR State Prize
Order of the October Revolution
Honorary foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lyapunov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ural State Technical University
Professor Emeritus of the Ural State University
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Demidov Prize
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Vonsovsky Gold Medal of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
IEEE Control Systems Award
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Laureate of the Science Support Foundation in the category "Outstanding Scientists"
The Issacs Award
Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg