Academician ABDULLA AZAMOV

ABDULLA AZAMOV – Well-known Mathematical Scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, awarded the badge " Khalk talimi alochisi ", the International Babur Prize (2015), the Order "Mehnat shuhrati" (2016).

A.Azamov was born on April 21, 1947 in Balikchi district of Andijan region. In 1953-1964 he studied at the secondary school Number 1. He took additional literary classes until the 8th grade, from 9th grade he was interested in mathematics, participated in the Mathematical Olympiads (1962 - regional round, 1963 and 1964 - republican round), in 1963 participated in the Olympiad organized by the newspaper "Yosh Leninchi".

In 1964, A. Azamov graduated from high school with a gold medal and entered the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek). In 1966, with a group of students, he was sent to the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov to continue their studies. In the same year he began to participate in a scientific seminar on differential equations, supervised by B.P. Demidovich and A.F. Filippov.

After graduation in 1970, Professor L.I.Volkovsky hired A.Azamov as an assistant at the Department of Mathematical Analysis of Tashkent State University. In the same year, he was assigned to give lectures on of "Calculus variations ", from 1971-72 he began to give lectures on "Differential Equations". In 1973 he was promoted to senior lecturer, and in 1978 to associate professor. In 1980-93 A.Azamov worked as an associate professor, professor and head of the department "Differential Equations". In 1992-93 he worked as a dean of the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1992, he was actively involved in the introduction of tests for university entrance exams as part of a government commission. From 1972 to 1975 (on a part-time basis) he worked as a leading editor in the Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia.

In 1993, A. Azamov was appointed rector of Namangan State University. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as a head of department at the Center for Secondary Special and Vocational Education of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Tafakkur” journal, from 2000 to 2011 as a senior official in the Office of the President.

From 2005 (until 2011 on a part-time basis) A. Azamov is the head of the department "Applied Mathematics" (from 2017 - Dynamical Systems) at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. During this period, he is giving lectures at the National University of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent branch of Moscow State University. In 2013, A. Azamov was elected as a chairman of the Mathematical Society of Uzbekistan.

A.Azamov did his first scientific work in 1968 - the results of the qualitative theory of differential equations were presented at the seminar of  B.P.Demidovich and A.F.Filippov. His diploma work was published in the journal “Differential equations”. In 1970-72 he continued to work in this direction. For his achievements in this field, he was awarded the Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan for young researchers.

In 1972, a well-known expert in the field of game theory L.A.Petrosyan (St. Petersburg University) visited Tashkent, gave a lecture and a number of problems. These problems were solved by A. Azamov (relevant results are partially described in L.A.Petrosyan's monograph "Pursuit differential games").

In the following period (until 2000) A. Azamov was mainly engaged in the theory of dynamical games. In this field he created a perfect theory of discrete dynamical games, solved the problem of the American mathematician R.Isaacs on the game of gravity, solved two problems on the method of characteristics for nonlinear games of one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century L.S.Pontryagin. He  developed a duality theory for alternating  integrals. In recent years, he has been mainly worked on the theory of dynamical systems and its applications.

In 1974, A. Azamov defended his dissertation at Tashkent State University, in 1987 he defended his doctoral dissertation at  St. Petersburg University. In 1981 he was awarded the title of associate professor, in 1989 the title of professor. In 2017, he became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

A. Azamov is contributing to the formation of highly qualified specialists in Asia and in the Republic greatly, under his supervision 4 doctors of sciences and 22 candidates of sciences were trained.

A.Azamov is also the author of articles on philosophy, history and methodology of science. A.Azamov pays special attention to the promotion and  education of mathematics.

In 1971 he founded a correspondence school of mathematics, from 1973 he was a member of jury of the the Republican Mathematical Olympiad, in 1989-1991 he was a member of the jury of the former Soviet Mathematical Olympiad, participated in the organization of summer physics and mathematics schools in the 1990s.

A. Azamov is also interested and involved in literature. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Uzbekistan since 2013. He is the author of five plays, two of which have been staged at the Namangan and Andijan regional theaters. He is also the author of several series of essays, the theory of aruz, several books and many publicist, scientific and popular articles on the works of Alisher Navoi and Zahiridin Muhammad Babur, editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia "Zahiridin Muhammad Babur" (first edition - 2014, second edition - 2017).

A.Azamov was awarded the badge "Khalk talimi alochisi", the International Bobur Prize (2015), the Order "Mehnat shuhrati" (2016).

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