Ludvig Faddeev Scientist

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also Ludwig Dmitriyevich; Russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; born March 23, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.

Personal facts

Ludvig Faddeev
Birth dateMarch 23, 1934
Birth place
Soviet Union , Saint Petersburg
Nationality
Russia
Education
Saint Petersburg State University
Known for
Faddeev–Popov ghost
Faddeev equations
Faddeev%E2%80%93Jackiw quantization
Faddeev%E2%80%93Senjanovic quantization

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Scientist

awards
Shaw Prize
Max Planck Medal
Dirac Prize
Demidov Prize
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Henri Poincaré Prize
doctoral advisor
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
doctoral student
Nicolai Reshetikhin
Alexander Its
Leon Takhtajan
Petr Kulish
Vladimir Buslaev
Field of study
Mathematics
Theoretical physics

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