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AUTHORS

Andrei D. Polyanin, D.Sc., Ph.D., is a well-known scientist
of broad interests who is active in various areas of mathe-
matics, mechanics, and chemical engineering sciences. He
is one of the most prominent authors in the field of reference
literature on mathematics and physics.
Professor Polyanin graduated with honors from the De-
partment of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State
University in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 and his
D.Sc. in 1986 from the Institute for Problems in Mechanics
of the Russian (former USSR) Academy of Sciences. Since
1975, Professor Polyanin has been working at the Institute for
Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
he is also Professor of Mathematics at Bauman Moscow State
Technical University. He is a member of the Russian National
Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and of the
Mathematics and Mechanics Expert Council of the Higher Certification Committee of the
Russian Federation.
Professor Polyaninhasmade important contributionsto exact andapproximate analytical
methods in the theory of differential equations, mathematical physics, integral equations,
engineering mathematics, theory of heat and mass transfer, and chemical hydrodynamics.
He has obtained exact solutions for several thousand ordinary differential, partial differen-
tial, and integral equations.
Professor Polyanin is an author of more than 30 books in English, Russian, German,
and Bulgarian as well as more than 120 research papers and three patents. He has
written a number of fundamental handbooks, including A. D. Polyanin and V. F. Zaitsev,
Handbook of Exact Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations, CRC Press, 1995 and
2003; A. D. Polyanin and A. V. Manzhirov, Handbook of Integral Equations, CRC Press,
1998; A. D. Polyanin, Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers
and Scientists, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2002; A. D. Polyanin, V. F. Zaitsev, and
A. Moussiaux, Handbook of First Order Partial Differential Equations, Taylor & Francis,
2002; and A. D. Polyanin and V. F. Zaitsev, Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential
Equation, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2004.
Professor Polyanin is editor of the book series Differential and Integral Equations
and Their Applications, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, London/Boca Raton, and Physical
and Mathematical Reference Literature, Fizmatlit, Moscow. He is also Editor-in-Chief
of the international scientific-educational Website EqWorld—The World of Mathematical
Equations (http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru), which is visited by over 1000 users a day worldwide.
Professor Polyaninisa member of the Editorial Boardof the journalTheoretical Foundations
of Chemical Engineering.
In 1991, Professor Polyanin was awarded a Chaplygin Prize of the Russian Academy
of Sciences for his research in mechanics. In 2001, he received an award from the Ministry
of Education of the Russian Federation.

Address: Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Vernadsky Ave. 101 Bldg 1, 119526 Moscow, Russia
Home page: http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/polyanin-ew.htm

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