Banach Spaces and their Applications

Anatolij Mykolajovych Plichko 

(Tolya for friends) was born on July 20, 1949 in the village Chervona Kamyanka in Kirovograd Region in Central Ukraine. Outstanding mathematical abilities which Anatolij demonstrated during elementary and middle school years encouraged his parents to send him to Kyiv boarding school for physical and mathematical sciences.

After graduating from this school Anatolij was accepted to Kyiv University where he was majoring in Mathematics. His research interests started to develop when he was attending a course “Topological Vector Spaces” which Yuri Petunin was teaching using the Bourbaki’s book as a text. In this course Petunin suggested his students several research problems, solving some of them was the first experience of mathematical research for Anatolij. In 1972 Anatolij got his Master’s degree and entered a Ph. D. program. He completed his Ph. D. Thesis under supervision of Petunin in 1975.

Eventually Banach space theory became the main area of research interests for Anatolij (it was not the case for his Ph. D. advisor Petunin). In this connection Anatolij established close scientific contacts with the most authoritative Soviet expert in Banach space theory - Mikhail Kadets (whose last name is also spelled as Kadec), and members of Kadets’ school (Vladimir Fonf, Boris Godun, Vladimir Kadets, Mikhail Ostrovskii).

Anatolij shares the view on mathematics as a source of attractive problems, this view was promoted by Mikhail Kadets during all of his research career.

Anatolij was successful with very many of such problems.

Anatolij has deep interests in history and Ukrainian literature. His high ethical standards, high level of independence, ability to get interested quickly in a rather distant research direction attracted to him many colleagues and students during his research career.