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Vera Faddeeva (Russian: Вера Николаевна Фаддеева; 1906–1983) was an important Soviet mathematician. She was one of the first people to publish work in a field called numerical linear algebra. This field uses computers to solve math problems.

Her book, Computational methods of linear algebra, came out in 1950. It was very popular and helped her win a special award called the USSR State Prize. Vera Faddeeva also wrote many research papers with her husband, Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev. She is remembered as a key Russian mathematician who worked on linear algebra in the 20th century.

Biography

Vera Nikolaevna Zamyatina (Russian: Вера Николаевна Замятина) was born on September 20, 1906, in Tambov, Russia. She started her university studies in 1927. She first went to the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. Then, in 1928, she moved to Leningrad State University.

She finished her studies in 1930. In the same year, she married Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev, who was also a mathematician. She then started working at the Leningrad Board of Weights and Measures.

Between 1930 and 1934, Vera worked at the Leningrad Hydraulic Engineering Institute. At the same time, from 1933 to 1934, she was a junior researcher. This was at the Seismology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1935, she began doing research for three years. She worked under Boris Grigorievich Galerkin at the Leningrad Institute of Constructions. She went back to the Pedagogical Institute in 1938 to do her graduate work. She studied there for three more years.

In 1942, Faddeeva became a junior researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Leningrad. But she had to leave the city during the German invasion. She lived in Kazan with her family. They stayed there until the siege ended in 1944. After that, they got permission to return to Leningrad.

By 1946, she finished her important paper, which was like a PhD thesis. It was called On One Problem. She submitted it to Leningrad State University. Her work was accepted, and she earned her PhD equivalent in 1946.

Key Works and Achievements

In 1949, Vera Faddeeva published two important papers. One was about using a method called "lines" to solve boundary problems. The other was about special functions of a math operator.

The next year, in 1950, she published a book with a friend, Mark Konstantinovich Gavurin. This book contained tables of Bessel functions. She also published her most famous work, Computational methods of linear algebra. This book was one of the first of its kind in the field.

The book explained linear algebra, which is a branch of mathematics. It showed ways to solve linear equations. It also explained how to find the inverse of matrices. Plus, it taught how to calculate square roots and eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix.

Vera Faddeeva kept working at the Steklov Institute until she retired. In 1951, she became the head of the Laboratory of Numerical Computations. This lab was based on a similar unit at Leningrad State University.

Her book, Computational methods, was translated into English in 1959. It became very influential around the world. In 1960, the book was made bigger and printed again in Russian. She won the USSR State Prize for it. It was also translated into English again and published in 1963.

Between 1962 and 1974, she worked with her husband. They put together a summary of new ideas in linear algebra. This summary was published in 1975. Vera Faddeeva's last paper was prepared in 1980 for a conference. It was called Numerical methods of linear algebra in computer formulation. It was published after she passed away in 1984.

Vera Faddeeva died on April 15, 1983, in Leningrad, Russia.

Personal Life

Vera Nikolaevna Zamyatina married Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev in 1930. They had three children:

• Maria (born October 6, 1931), who became a chemist.
• Ludvig (March 10, 1934 – February 26, 2017), who became a mathematician and theoretical physicist.
• Michael (June 28, 1937 – September 30, 1992), who also became a mathematician.

See also

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