---
title: "R.V. Gamkrelidze"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "R.V. Gamkrelidze"
aliases: ["Revaz Gamkrelidze"]
first_seen: "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Lev Pontryagin","maximum principle","optimal control","Steklov Institute","Boltyanskii and Mishchenko"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


Soviet mathematician, [[entity-lev-pontryagin|Pontryagin]]'s student and co-author on the 1956 maximum principle (with Boltyanskii and Mishchenko), later a leading figure at the Steklov Institute.

Matters to this vault as a named member of the "red corner" in the Cold War optimal-control origin story ([[claim-pesch-plail-2012-frames-cold-war-optimal-control-as-blue-red-corners]]) and, now, as the author of a 2019 first-person Steklov Institute memoir, "History of the Discovery of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle" (*Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics*, vol. 304) — a primary-source candidate for the Soviet-side discovery history, only its abstract read so far. Recurs across the vault's existing maximum-principle-discovery and Isaacs-priority claim-notes without having had a hub until now.

## References
- [[claim-pesch-plail-2012-frames-cold-war-optimal-control-as-blue-red-corners]]
- [[claim-isaacs-1951-and-1965-notes-measure-first-against-pontryagin-by-different-margins]]
- [[claim-pontryagin-worked-blind-via-mothers-spoken-symbol-glosses]]
- [[claim-isaacs-1951-rand-paper-precursors-maximum-principle]]