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Temur Sabirov

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Temur Sabirov
Black-and-white photograph of Temur Sabirov with writer Chinghiz Aitmatov
Sobirov with Chinghiz Aitmatov
Born
Temur Sobirov

(1940-04-03)3 April 1940
Sifiyen, Tajikistan
Died23 June 1977(1977-06-23) (aged 37)
Resting placeVahdat, Tajikistan
EducationVoronezh State University

Temur Sabirov was a Soviet and Tajik Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

Life

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Temur Sabirov was born on 3 April 1940 in Sufiyen, Tajikistan.[1] He was the third youngest of six children. After his father passed away at an early age, he was sent to study at a boarding school. Sabirov's father was a government tax collector. His mother was a housewife. His siblings and relatives are also highly respected and have been involved in politics. His older brother is Bozor Sobir, Tajikistan's most well-known and preeminent poet, and politician. His older brother was also a mathematician and ran for a Senate seat. His nephew, also a mathematician, was the head of a Democratic Party in Tajikistan until his resignation in 2000s. His other siblings went into teaching.

Scientific career

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He completed his doctorate in Voronezh, Russia. He was a student of Mark Krasnosel'skii, who was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications. Temur Sobirov was a professor in Voronezh State University in Russia. His field of research was the theory of ordinary differential equations.[2] His works have been published in Soviet as well as European and American mathematical and physics journals. He has published over 60 scientific articles.[3][better source needed] He has made a big contribution in the education of young scientists of Tajikistan.[4]

Distinctions

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A government primary school as well as a street is named after him in Tajikistan.[5]

Family

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He met his wife Nina while studying in Voronezh. He has one son Arthur Sobirov, who at the time of Sobirov's teaching at Voronezh State University attended the Suvorov Military School.[6]

Death

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After an acute illness Sabirov died on June 23, 1977, at the age of 37 in Voronezh, but his body was transported to his birthplace near Orzhenikidzebad, now Vahdat, Tajikistan.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Today in History. ASIA-Plus. 3 April 2014. http://news.tj/ru/news/salom-aleikum-tadzhikistan-anonsy-sobytii-prognoz-pogody-na-3-aprelya
  2. ^ Voronezh State University. Department of Advanced Mathematics. http://math.vspu.ac.ru/histori.html
  3. ^ Timur Sabirov Museum.
  4. ^ ФАЙЗОБОД. Энсиклопедия. — Душанбе, 2011. СИЭМТ, — 392 саҳ. — ISBN 978-99947-33-48-4
  5. ^ Temur Sobirov Museum
  6. ^ Temur Sobirov Museum.