Boris Chirikov
Boris Chirikov | |
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Boris Chirikov, June, 2007 (Photo by Galya Chirikova) | |
| Born | Boris Valerianovich Chirikov 6 June 1928 Oryol, USSR |
| Died | 12 February 2008 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1952) |
| Known for | Chaos theory Standard map Chirikov criterion |
| Spouse | Olga Bashina |
| Children | Galya Chirikova |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
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Boris Valerianovich Chirikov (Russian: Борис Валерианович Чириков; 6 June 1928 – 12 February 2008) was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was the founder of the physical theory of Hamiltonian chaos and made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum chaos. In 1959, he invented the Chirikov criterion which gives an analytical estimate for the overlap of resonances and provides the conditions for transition from integrability to global chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.