Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev
Людвиг Фаддеев
Faddeev in 2010
Born	(1934-03-23)23 March 1934 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died	26 February 2017(2017-02-26) (aged 82)
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Known for	Faddeev equations Faddeev–Popov ghosts Faddeev–Senjanovic quantization Faddeev–Jackiw quantization Quantum dilogarithm Quantum inverse scattering method Yangian
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize (1975) Dirac Prize (1990) Max Planck Medal (1996) Pomeranchuk Prize (2002) Demidov Prize (2002) Poincaré Prize (2006) Shaw Prize (2008) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, theoretical physics
Institutions	Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Doctoral advisor	Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Doctoral students	Vladimir Buslaev Nicolai Reshetikhin Samson Shatashvili Evgeny Sklyanin Leon Takhtajan Vladimir Korepin

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also Ludwig Dmitriyevich; Russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the quantum-mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path-integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction of the Faddeev–Popov ghosts (with Victor Popov). He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.