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Bashmakova was born on January 3, 1921, in Rostov-on-Don, to a family of Armenian descent. Her father, Grigory Georgiyevich Bashmakov, was a lawyer. Her family moved to Moscow in 1932. She began studies in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University in 1938, but was evacuated from Moscow during World War II, during which she served as a nurse in Samarkand.[1][2] She completed a Ph.D. in 1948, under the supervision of Sofya Yanovskaya.[3]
She continued at Moscow State as an assistant professor, and in 1949 was promoted to associate professor. In 1950 her husband, mathematician Andrei I. Lapin, was arrested for his opposition to Lysenkoism, but in part due to Bashmakova's efforts he was freed again in 1952.[4] Bashmakova completed her D.Sc. in 1961 and became a full professor in 1968.[1][2]
Her later research contributions include a comparison of the tools used by Diophantus to solve Diophantine equation, versus more modern methods; following a line of thought suggested by Jacobi, she suggested that Diophantus' methods were more sophisticated than previously thought, but that their sophistication had been hidden by the emphasis on specific cases in Diophantus's writings. She used complex numbers to reinterpret the geometric transformations studied by François Viète.[1][2] She has also studied the history of algebraic curves, and translated the works of Fermat into Russian.[6]
Books
Bashmakova's books include:
Диофант и диофантовы уравнения, Nauka, 1972; Diophant und diophantische Gleichungen, Birkhäuser, 1974; Diophantus and Diophantine Equations, Mathematical Association of America, 1997.[7]
Становление алгебры: Из истории математических идей [The development of algebra: From the history of mathematical ideas], Znanie, 1979.
История диофантова анализа: От Диофанта до Ферма [History of Diophantine analysis: From Diophantus to Fermat, Nauka, 1984.[8]
The beginnings and evolution of algebra (with Galina Smirnova, Mathematical Association of America, 2000)[9]
Recognition
In 1986, the International Congress of Mathematicians initially published a list of speakers that included no women. After protests, the executive committee of the congress invited six women to speak at the congress. Bashmakova was one of those six; she was unable to travel to the congress, but her paper appears in its proceedings.[10]
^Review of History of Diophantine analysis: L. Beran, MR0751410; K.-B.Gundlach, Zbl0542.01001
^Review of The beginnings and evolution of algebra: Karl-Heinz Schlote, MR1666256; Steve Abbott, The Mathematical Gazette, JSTOR3621191; Jeanne Ramirez Corpus Mather, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR27971589; G. L. Alexanderson, MAA Reviews, [2]; W.Kaunzner, Zbl0942.01001
^Demidov, S. S. (2012), "A meeting of the mathematics section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of I. G. Bashmakova", Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniya i Tekhniki (1): 195–198, MR2976818.
