Steklov Institute of Mathematics
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Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute is a research institute based in Moscow
Moscow
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, specialized in mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, and a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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. It was established April 24, 1934 by the decision of the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad
Saint Petersburg
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. The institute is named after Vladimir Andreevich Steklov.

In 1940 it was moved to Moscow, but its old building became its Department in Leningrad. Today, that department has become a separate institute, called the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences
The St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences for "Петербургское отделение Математического института", Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute) is a mathematical research institute in St. Petersburg, part of the Russian Academy of...

or PDMI RAS, located in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, Russia
Russia
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. The name St. Petersburg Department is misleading, however, because the Petersburg Department is now independent and retains no ties with the Steklov Mathematical Institute.

In 1966, the Moscow-based Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institute specializing in computational mathematics....

(Russian: Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша) split off from the Steklov Institute.

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