Grigori Milstein
Russian mathematician (1937–2023)
Grigori N. Milstein (Russian: Григорий Нойхович Мильштейн; 6 June 1937 – 22 November 2023) was a Russian mathematician who made many important contributions to Stochastic Numerics, Estimation, Control, Stability theory, Financial Mathematics.
Biography
G.N. Milstein received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Ural State University (UrGU; Sverdlovsk, USSR),
which is now Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia). He completed his PhD studies at the same university.
Milstein has been an assistant professor, associate professor and, after defending his DSc thesis,
professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics UrGU (then URFU).
He also worked as senior researcher at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (Berlin, Germany) and
was a visiting professor at University of Leicester (Leicester, UK) and University of Manchester (Manchester, UK).
Research
Milstein was a world-leading expert in Stochastic Numerics, Estimation, Control, Stability, Financial Mathematics.
He published four research monographs:
The first of the listed books was the first monograph in the world published on the topic of numerical methods for
stochastic differential equations.
He also contributed to the second edition of R. Khasminskii "Stochastic Stability of Differential Equations", Springer, 2012.
He has published more than 100 journal papers.
In Milstein's early pioneering paper on Stochastic Numerics (1974,1975), he
constructed a first-order mean-square method for SDEs that is known as Milstein method.
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