Revaz Valerianovic Gamkrelidze (, ISO 9984: Revaz Valeris je Gamqrelije; February 4, 1927 – May 5, 2025) was a Soviet and Georgian mathematician known for his work in optimal control theory and related fields. He was a member of the Georgian Academy of SciencesA list of members of the Georgian Academy is available at and of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The page of the Russian Academy of Sciences listing Revaz Gamkrelidze as its member
Background After secondary school, Gamkrelidze attended Tbilisi State University.Guram Kharatishvili, Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, "Revaz Gamkrelidze is 70", Razmadze Mathematical Institute, 19973-7,11 In his sophomore year, he went to Moscow to study at the mechanics and mathematics faculty of Moscow State University where he became a student of Pontryagin.
Gamkrelidze died on May 5, 2025, at the age of 98.Реваз Валерианович Гамкрелидзе He was the brother of the linguist Tamaz Gamkrelidze.
Work At Moscow State University, he initially worked in the fields of algebraic geometry and topology, and derived what is now known as Gamkrelidze's formula.Computation of Chern cycles of Algebraic Manifolds. (Russian). Dokl. Nauk. SSSR 90(1953), No.4 719–722 In 1954 he began his work on optimal control. He wrote Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes with Pontryagin, Boltyanskii and Mishchenko. This work was awarded the State Lenin Prize for Science and Technology in 1962.Pontryagin, Boltyanskii, Gamkrelidze, Mishchenko, The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes, Authorized translation from the Russian, translated by K.N. Trirogoff, Interscience Publishers, 1962 Gamkrelidze was the founding editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences.See the encyclopaedia's website
Books MR 0166037 MR 0686792
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Revaz Gamkrelidze at Mathnet.ru Revaz Gamkrelidze's CV at the Georgian Academy of Sciences website