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This is a short overview of the origins of distribution theory as well as a few signposts of the life of Sergeĭ Sobolev (1908–1989) and his contribution to the formation of the modern outlook of mathematics.
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Original Russian Text Copyright © 2008 Kutateladze S. S.
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of S. L. Sobolev.
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Novosibirsk. Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 975–985, September–October, 2008.
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Kutateladze, S.S. Sobolev of the Euler school. Sib Math J 49, 771–779 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-008-0075-z
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