In October, the Ukrainian scientific community honors the memory of Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk. October 12th marked the 128th anniversary of his birth. The figure of this scientist stands out from other famous scientists of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, because Mikhailo Kravchuk had taught Higher Mathematics here since 1921 and was Head of the Department of Higher Mathematics (1934-1938). His best students worked at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: Yurii Sokolov, Oleksándr Smohorzhevskyi, Valentýn Zmoróvych and others.
Kravchuk’s mathematical talent was unique in ability to analyze complex questions in various branches of mathematics, physics, history, chemistry, and methods of mathematics. Even today, the world scientific community uses such mathematical concepts as "Kravchuk polynomials", "Kravchuk method of moments", "Kravchuk oscillators".
Mykhailo Kravchuk's mathematical works were translated by John Vincent Atanasoff who found these works useful in his computer-project (Atanasoff–Berry computer).
Mykhailo Pylypovych was the founder of the first Ukrainian scientific mathematical school and its popularizer. He brought together a powerful team of Ukrainian mathematicians, including many of his students. Mykhailo Kravchuk's patriotic stance and love for the Homeland turned into repressions and exile. On March 9, 1942, a prominent scientist died in a Gulag camp in the Kolyma region.
Mykhailo Kravchuk was posthumously reinstituted only in 1956. In the 1990s, thanks to the work of Professor of the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Probability Theory of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nina Virchenko, the figure of Mykhailo Kravchuk received a worthy honor. His name was returned to the list of full members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. UNESCO has recognized Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk as an outstanding scientist.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute held 18 Kravchuk International Conferences. A monument to the scientist was installed on May 20, 2003 at the university. Every year the best students of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute are awarded scholarships named after this brilliant mathematician.