Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:28:01 +0300
From: sigma@imath.kiev.ua
Subject: Anatoly Klimyk died on July 22, 2008


Dear Colleagues,

I have the sad duty to inform you that yesterday, on July 22, 2008,
Anatoly Klimyk, 69, passed away. Anatoly Klimyk was a member of the
Editorial Board of SIGMA, well-known mathematician, Professor.

Anatoly Klimyk was born on April 14, 1939 in the village Ugrynivka,
Vinnytsya Region, Ukraine. In 1956 he entered the Department of
Physics and Mathematics of Uzhgorod University, and graduated in 1961.
In 1961-1964 he worked as a high-school teacher in the village Stavne,
Zakarpatsky Region. In 1964-1967 he was a post-graduate student at
the Institute of Mathematics and at the Institute of Theoretical
Physics of Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR. In 1967 he defended his
thesis for the degree of the Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.), and in
1982 - the thesis for the degree of the Doctor of Sciences. In
1967-1989 he worked as a Junior, Senior and Leading Researcher of the
Institute of Theoretical Physics of AS UkrSSR. From 1989 to April 2008
he was the Head of Department of Mathematical Methods in Theoretical
Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine.

Anatoly Klimyk was a recognised expert in the area of theory of
representations of Lie groups and algebras, modern theory of special
functions, mathematical physics and non-commutative geometry.

Some of his most well-known books:

Representations of Lie groups and special functions, Vols. 1-4,
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991-1995 (with N. Ja. Vilenkin)

Quantum groups and their representations, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
1997 (with K. Schmudgen)

SIGMA team bewails the untimely death of our colleague.


Anatoly Nikitin
http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/