Semen Samsonovich Kovner (1896-1962) - Soviet mathematician, geophysicist, organizer of science.
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Biography
He was born on February 10 ( 22 ), 1896 in Moscow in the family of a factory medical assistant.
He studied at the school of E. A. Kirpichnikova; since 1905 - in the 10th Moscow Gymnasium , which he graduated with a medal in 1914. One year was a student of the People’s University. Shanyavsky . In 1915 he entered the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University . In 1918, as a student, he wrote his first independent research under the guidance of Professor B. K. Mlodzievsky : “About transcendental curves on Riemann surfaces ”.
After graduation in 1921, at the suggestion of Professor DF Egorov was left at the university to prepare for a professorship. From October 1920 he was a senior assistant, then a assistant professor.
Fluent in several languages (German, English, Italian, French, Esperanto ), S. S. Kovner translated several books: “The Secrets of the Skilful Calculator” by Menkhen, “Probability Theory” by O. Meissner, “Introduction to the Calculus of the Infinitely Small” , "New Trigonometry" of Locke and Childe.
Repeatedly went abroad for an internship; in 1923, together with P. S. Uryson and P. S. Aleksandrov, visited Gottingen and Berlin, where he attended the lectures of D. Gilbert , E. Landau and A. Einstein , in 1924 was again in Göttingen - together with P. S. Aleksandrov, B.I. Kovner, V.V. Stepanov, and Yu.A. Rozhanskaya [1] . In 1924, Kovner entered the graduate school of the Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Moscow State University and in 1929 graduated from it. Since 1927 - Associate Professor at Moscow University; in 1929 he published a course in higher mathematics. In January 1930, he was appointed Head of the Mathematics Department at the Geophysical Faculty of Moscow State University; after the transformation of the faculty into the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute, he headed the department of mathematics there until 1935 and, besides this, from May 1931 until the end of his life, he was a professor and head of the department of mathematics of the Moscow Textile Institute .
In addition to teaching, S. S. Kovner worked at the State Research Geophysical Institute, having gone from a research assistant (November 1925) to a deputy director for research (1932-1933). In June 1935 - October 1937, he worked as a senior scientist at the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences ; then - head of the department of mathematical geophysics at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . On May 25, 1938, without a dissertation defense, he was awarded the academic degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
In May 1927, S. S. Kovner, before the Presidium of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee, took the initiative to establish a planetarium in Moscow and was included in the commission for its construction. After its construction, O. Yu. Schmidt noted:
The Soviet public will always be grateful to S. Kovner for his selfless and energetic efforts to create the Moscow Planetarium.
In November 1941, S. S. Kovner evacuated with the Institute of Geophysics to Kazan , where, together with O. Yu. Schmidt, he continued to edit the journal Izvestia of the Academy of Sciences. Geographical and geophysical series ” [2] .
Since 1947 he headed the geothermal laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics.
He was buried at Vostryakovsky Jewish cemetery [3] .
Family
- His wife is Isabella Isaakovna Pevzner (1901-1970).
- Son - Dmitry Semenovich Kovner (1935–1996), engineer, head of the MAI department, author of the monographs “The choice of the main parameters of a turbofan fan and its turbines” (1985), “Thermal gas dynamic calculations of gas turbine engines on a computer in dialogue mode” (1987), “Calculation and design of combustion chambers of the WFD in CAD "(1989) and" Calculation of the altitude and throttle characteristics of turbofan engines and turbofans on a computer in the dialogue mode "(1989).
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Literature
- Kozenko A.V., Korsakov S.N. Semyon Samsonovich Kovner: mathematician, geophysicist, organizer of science. - Tver: SFK-office, 2013. - 19 p. - ISBN 978-5-91504-015-0 .
- Kozenko A.V., Korsakov S.N. Semyon Samsonovich Kovner // Earth and Universe. - 2014. - № 5 . - pp . 38-41 .
- Lyusternik L. A. Youth of the Moscow Mathematical School