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Evgenii Landis
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Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis (Russian: ,

Yevgeny Mikhaylovich Landis; October 6, 1921 December 12, 1997) was
a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential
equations.

Life
Landis was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He studied and
worked at the Moscow State University, where his advisor was Alexander
Kronrod, and later Ivan Petrovsky. In 1946, together with Kronrod, he
rediscovered Sard's lemma unknown in Russia at the time.

Later he worked on uniqueness theorems for elliptic and parabolic

differential equations, Harnack inequalities, and PhragmnLindelf type
theorems. With Georgy Adelson-Velsky, he invented the AVL tree
datastructure (where "AVL" stands for Adelson-Velsky Landis).

He died in Moscow. His students include Yulij Ilyashenko. Landis at a conference on potential
theory in Prague, 1987

External links
Evgenii Landis (https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=76951) at the Mathematics
Genealogy Project
Biography of Y.M. Landis (http://www.icms.org.uk/archive/meetings/2001/progpde/landis/index.html) at the
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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