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Today, we remember with admiration and gratitude this brilliant mathematician, Soviet and Russian scientist, and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose work became the foundation for an entire scientific school.
Alexander Alexandrovich was born on February 3, 1934, in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Region, to the family of the chief engineer of the Yakhroma Textile Factory. In 1957, he graduated from high school with honors and entered the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. It was there that his distinguished scientific career began—Petrov studied with great interest, inspired by the "stars of his class" and feeling "a sense of belonging to high-level science and to tasks of national importance."
From 1963, he worked at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, rising from a junior research fellow to department head. In 1964, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and spent his entire career at his alma mater, nurturing new generations of outstanding scientists and doctors of science.
Alexander Alexandrovich made a significant contribution to the development of economic science:
Under his leadership, a new direction in mathematical economics emerged, where economic analysis acquired the rigor and modeling culture characteristic of the physical and mathematical sciences. The models he and his students developed became a unique analytical tool. Based on them, a crucial forecast of the consequences of the 1992 Russian economic reform was made back in May 1990. He significantly developed Leontief's classical model, proposing an original generalization and creating new methods for optimal planning problems based on it. The scientific apparatus he created made it possible to analyze the evolution of Russian economic structures from 1986 to 2002. His models again brilliantly confirmed their accuracy when, in May 1998, he predicted the crisis in the regional banking system, which erupted in August of that year.
During his lifetime, the scientist published over 140 scientific papers ("Dynamic Model of Expansion and Restructuring of Production (PI Model)", "On the Economy in the Language of Mathematics", "Economics. Models. Computational Experiment", "Mathematical Models of the Russian Economy"), including nine monographs. His contributions to science have been recognized with various awards, including the USSR State Prize, the Order of Friendship, the M.V. Lomonosov Order for the Development of Science, and others.
But Alexander Petrov's greatest legacy is the methodology that enabled him to translate the most complex economic processes into precise formulas and models. His work is a shining example of his selfless dedication to scientific thought. He devoted himself entirely to it, and thus his ideas continue to live and flourish, proving that mathematics can not only describe the world but also foresee its future.
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