V.A. Borovikov

V.A. Borovikov (b. 1932) graduated from the Mechanical and Mathematical Department of Moscow University. He has worked as a researcher in the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and, since 1980, in the Institute of Prolems of Mechanics, Moscow. His scientific achievements relate to the use of asymptotic methods in analysis and differential equations, diffraction theory and the problems of internal gravity waves in the ocean. He is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Moscow Physicotechnical Institute.