Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Тошмуҳаммад Алиевич Саримсоқов, Russian: Ташмухамед Алиевич Сарымсаков, Tashmukhamed Alievich Sarymsakov; 10 September 1915 – 17 December 1995) was an Uzbek mathematician who served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1947 to 1952.
Early life and education
Born on 10 September 1915 in Shahrixon to an Uzbek family, in 1931 he graduated from a Russian secondary school in Kokand; he subsequently enrolled in the Central Asia State University. There, he was one of the first students of Vsevolod Romanovsky. After graduating from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the university in 1936, he remained at the university, where he attended graduate school. At the same time, he worked as assistant and associate professor. After briefly serving in the Red Army, he returned to the university in 1942 to defend his doctoral dissertation. That year he received his Doctor of Sciences degree.[1][2][3][4]
In 1943 he became the rector of his university, and held that post until June 1944.
When the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR was founded in 1943, he became its vice president. In 1947 he became its president, and held the post until 1952. He then returned to being the rector of Central Asia State University, where he remained until 1958.
From 1959 to 1971 he served as the minister of higher education of the Uzbek SSR before again returning to being the rector of the university, which had been renamed to Tashkent State University in 1960. In 1983 he returned to working at the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, and in 1988 he became advisor to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. His main areas of study were probability, statistics, and functional analysis. During his career he authored over 170 academic papers. His work on the theory of non-homogeneous Markov chains is cited in modern academic papers.[7] For his work, he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour on 3 April 1990. After Uzbekistan became independent he worked as an advisor to the President of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.
Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of the Uzbek SSR (1960)[6]
References
^ abАюпов, Ш. А. (ed.). "Математическая жизнь - Ташмухамед Алиевич Сарымсаков" [Mathematical life - Toshmuhamad Aliyevich Sarimsoqov] (PDF). Узбекский Математический Журнал (in Russian). 2005 (3). Ташкент: Издательство «Фан» Академии Наук Республики Узбекистан: 3–10. ISSN2010-7269.
^Боголюбов, А. Н.; Матвиевская, Г. П. (1997). Всеволод Иванович Романовский, 1879–1954 [Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky, 1879–1954]. Научно-биографическая серия (in Russian). Москва: Наука. ISBN978-5-02003-644-4.
^Kostyrya, Vyacheslav (1977). "Могучая крона знаний" [Mighty Crown of Knowledge]. Ogonyok (in Russian) (26): 16–17.
^"Ташмухамед Алиевич Сарымсаков". Pravda Vostoka (in Russian). No. 241. 19 December 1995. p. 1.
^Академия Наук Узбекской ССР [Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR] (in Russian). Издательство «Фан» Узбекской ССР. 1983.
^ abKarimov, Timur. "Сарымсаков Ташмухамед Алиевич" [Sarymsakov Tashmukhamed Alievich]. Международный патриотический интернет-проект «Герои страны» (in Russian). Retrieved 13 November 2022.
^Салахитдинов, М. С. (1993). Академии наук Республики Узбекистан – 50 лет [Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan – 50 years] (in Russian). Фан.
^Ўзбекистон миллий энциклопедияси(PDF) (in Uzbek). Vol. 7. Tashkent: O‘zbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi Davlat ilmiy nashriyoti. 2004. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
^"О награждении посмертно деятелей науки и искусства, внесших огромный вклад в развитие науки и культуры Узбекистана". Narodnoe slovo (in Uzbek). No. 172. 24 August 2002. p. 1.