Life long scientific feat. On the occasion of centenary of the birth of academician of RAS A.A. Samarskii

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Andreevich Samarskii, the founder of the Soviet and Russian school of mathematical modeling, the creator of the fundamental general theory of difference schemes, an outstanding teacher who brought up more than one generation of famous scientists , an active organizer and a bright advocate of science. Scientific activities of academician A.A. Samarskii is strongly associated with the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Modeling of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which he headed. A brilliant scientist and an excellent organizer, he laid down the potential to keep the world level of Russian science in the most important area of mathematical modeling for our country. 1. A.A. SAMARSKII THE FOUNDER OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING Alexander Andreevich Samarskii was born on February 19, 1919 in the village of NovoIvanovskoye, Donetsk-Amvrosievsky District, Donetsk Region, into a peasant family. He began his education at the village school, and then attended the secondary school named after A.P. Chekhov in Taganrog, which in 1936 he graduated with honors. After school, A.A. Samarskii entered the Faculty of Physics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1939 he began working in the scientific seminar of professor A.N. Tikhonov, a brilliant mathematician, a future academic, world-famous scientist. Since that time, the collaboration of two eminent scientists, which lasted for many decades, began.