| Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty | |
| Native Name: | Математико-механический Факультет |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Image Upright: | 1.1 |
| Image Alt: | Logo of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics |
| Latin Name: | The Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics |
| Type: | Academic and Research Faculty |
| Established: | 1931 |
| Head Label: | Acting Head |
| Head: | E. V. Kustova |
| Academic Staff: | 378 (as of 2009) |
| City: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Country: | Russia |
| Postalcode: | 198504 |
| Campus Type: | Suburban |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Russia |
The Saint Petersburg State University Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty is a research and education center in the fields of Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, and Computer Science.
In 1701, Tsar Peter I issued a decree founding a school of mathematical and navigation sciences. In 1724, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the, and the Academic Gymnasium were founded. This marked the beginning of the famous Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. When Saint Petersburg University was founded in 1819, the department of mathematics at the created four departments: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Gradually expanding, this department survived for over a century. By 1930, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics had become a formal union of independent departments: mathematics, mechanics, astronomy-geodesy, physics, and geography (in 1929–1930, the State University Institute of Chemistry and the had already separated from it). In 1931,[1] the university's faculties were abolished and replaced by sectors: mathematics and mechanics, physics, geophysics, soil science and botany, physiology, and zoology. In 1932–33, the sectors were transformed back into faculties: mathematics and mechanics, physics, biology, geology-soil-geography, and chemistry.
The first dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics (technically, head of the corresponding sector) in 1931 was a postgraduate student of Grigorii Fikhtengol'ts, O. A. Beloglavek.[2] In 1933, Mikhail Subbotin became the dean, leading the faculty until World War II.
In February 1942, Professor was appointed dean but was arrested and repressed shortly thereafter.
In 1945, the faculty was granted the premises of the former Bestuzhev Courses (10th Line, 33). A branch of the faculty was located at 14th Lines of Vasilyevsky Island, building 29.
In 1957, a Computing Center was established at the faculty.
In 1979, the faculty moved to the in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg, in the Petergof district.
For a long time, until the 2011 reorganization, the faculty included scientific institutions—the, the, and the Research Institute of Information Technology.
In 2019, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science separated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, along with the building on 14th Lines of Vasilyevsky Island on Vasilyevsky Island.[3]
The faculty consists of 22 departments, one interfaculty department, postgraduate and doctoral programs, the Intel research and educational laboratory, 9 service departments, a scientific library, an archive, and the scientific center "Dynamics." As of October 15, 2009, the faculty had 378 teachers, including 126 professors and 178 associate professors.[4]
| Department of Mathematics | Department of Mathematical Analysis[5] |
| Department of Higher Algebra and Number Theory | |
| Department of Higher Geometry | |
| Department of Differential Equations | |
| Department of Mathematical Physics | |
| Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics | |
| Department of Applied Mathematics | Department of Computational Mathematics |
| Department of Operations Research | |
| Department of Applied Cybernetics | |
| Department of Statistical Modeling | |
| Department of Theoretical Cybernetics | |
| Department of Computer Science | Department of Computer Science |
| Department of Information-Analytical Systems | |
| Department of System Programming | |
| Department of Parallel Algorithms | |
| Department of Mechanics | Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
| Department of Hydroaeromechanics | |
| Department of Hydroelasticity | |
| Department of Theory of Elasticity | |
| Department of Physical Mechanics | |
| Department of Astronomy | Department of Astrophysics |
| Department of Celestial Mechanics | |
| Department of Astronomy | |
| Interfaculty Department of General Mathematics and Informatics |