Oleg Besov

Oleg Besov
Born1933 (age 9192)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Alma materSteklov Institute of Mathematics
Known forBesov space
Besov measure
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1977)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSteklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Thesis On a family of functional spaces: embedding and extension theorems  (1960)
Doctoral advisorSergey Nikolsky

Oleg Vladimirovich Besov (Russian: Олег Владимирович Бесов; born 1933) is a Russian mathematician. He heads the Department of Function Theory at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where he defended his PhD in 1960 and habilitation in 1966. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice. He is professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1990) and European Academy of Sciences (since 2002). A festschrift was published in honor of Besov's 70th birthday.