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Levin, V. I. Leonard Rastrigin as a Scientist and Science Writer. On the 85th Anniversary of His Birth

Abstract: The article describes life and academic and teaching activity of a world-known Soviet scientist Leonard Rastrigin. The article offers his detailed scienti􀏔ic biography and fully describes Rastrigin’s academic activity and 􀏔indings. Much attention is paid to his work as a scienti􀏔ic supervisor of post-graduate students and students for a doctor’s degree as well as his teaching activity. The author of the article provides memories of him shared by his colleagues and students. Much attention is also paid to Leonard Rastrigin’s personality and fate. The article contains a full list of all his published books as well as a general description of his numerous minor works including articles, speeches, reviews, theses, popular scienti􀏔ic books and etc. The present research of Rastrigin is based on the analysis of Leonard Rastrigin’s scienti􀏔ic, methodological and popular scienti􀏔ic works. The author also uses memories of Rastrigin shared by his colleagues and students including the author himself. The present research article is the 􀏔irst one in scienti􀏔ic literature to describe the academic, teaching and popular scientific activity of a distinguished scientist and a brilliant person – professor Leonard Rastrigin (1929–1998) and his dramatic life full of con􀏔licts with Soviet bureaucrats. The main conclusions made by the author: 1. Leonard Rastrigin was a major scientist and a founder of the theory of random search, a new ef􀏔icient method of managing complex systems. 2. He was also a distinguished organizer of scienti􀏔ic researches even though he did not hold a major administrative position and an excellent teacher and a supervisor of post-graduate students and students for a doctor’s degree. He trained a great number of PhDs and Doctors of Science.

Keywords:

Leonard Rastrigin, scientist, science writer, educator, random search, Monte Carlo method, cybernetics, scienti􀏔ic biography, scientist’s personality.

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