Revaz Gamkrelidze

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 Sciences and of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Background After secondary school, Gamkrelidze attended Tbilisi State University. 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. 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. 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. Gamkrelidze was the founding editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences.

Books MR 0166037 MR 0686792