A piece of Victor Katsnelson's mathematical biography

Abstract

We give an overview of several works of Victor Katsnelson published in 1965-1970, and pertaining to the complex and harmonic analysis and the spectral theory. A preambleAs a mathematician, Victor Katsnelson was raised within a fine school of function theory and functional analysis, which was blossoming in Kharkov starting the second half of 1930s. He studied in the Kharkov State University in 1960-1965. Among his teachers were Naum Akhiezer, Boris Levin, Vladimir Marchenko. That time he became acquainted with Vladimir Matsaev whom Victor often mentions as one of his teachers. In 1965 Katsnelson graduated with the master degree, Boris Levin supervised his master thesis. Since then and till 1990, he teaches at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Kharkov State University. In 1967 he defends the PhD Thesis "Convergence and Summability of Series in Root Vectors of Some Classes of Non-Selfadjoint Operators" also written under Boris Levin guidance. Until he left Kharkov in the early 1990s, Katsnelson remained an active participant of the Kharkov function theory seminar run on Thursdays by Boris Levin and IossifOstrovskii. His talks, remarks and questions were always interesting and witty.