About Dmitri Yafaev
Lived 1948 – 2024 (aged 75–76). Dmitri Yafaev was a mathematician and physicist.
Dmitri R. Yafaev (Дмитрий Рауэльевич Яфаев; 2 January 1948 – 16 June 2024) was a Russian-French mathematical physicist.
At the University of Leningrad (now renamed Saint Petersburg State University) Yafaev received his Russian Candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1973 with thesis advisor Mikhail Birman and was a lecturer from 1973 to 1977. From 1977 to 1990 Yafaev was a researcher and senior researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. At the University of Nantes he was an associate professor from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 he was a full professor at the University of Rennes 1. and in 2003 at the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Lisbon.
Yafaev died on 16 June 2024, at the age of 76.
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Who was Dmitri Yafaev?
Russian-French mathematical physicist
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Dmitri Yafaev was born in 1948 in Saint Petersburg.
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Dmitri Yafaev died on 16 June 2024.
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Dmitri Yafaev was a mathematician and physicist.
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