Mykhaylo Kravchuk is outstanding Ukrainian mathematician of the XX century, member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, a scientist with worldwide fame.
Scientific works of M.Kravchuk in various fields of mathematics (higher algebra and mathematical analysis, the theory of differential and integral equations, the theory of probability and mathematical statistics, etc.) came to the treasury of world science. Scientific ideas of M.Kravchuk will be studied, immersed, developed more and more, because he foresaw further, wider and deeper! His ideas and discoveries clearly showed in-depth perspective of the development and use of them. Analyzing the potential possibilities of native science, he wrote in the 30s, we have the " right and reason to hope in the near future for such scientific mathematicians that will make our mathematical school the center of global importance ".
For a long tome on the pages of research and scientific works exist Kravchuk's polynomials and moments , Kravchuk's formulas and oscillators, and now (2001), due to the investigation of I.Kachanovskyy, the scientist from the USA, was studied out that M.Kravchuk stood at the origins of the invention of the first electronic computer in the world!
The great mathematician became almost legendary figure. Son of Heaven, Poet of the silent number, mathematical knight scholar with the face of Christ, the creator of music of numbers, Titan of the mathematical thought, leader of Mathematics, the pride of the Ukrainian Math, - this is an incomplete list of those epithets which he awarded with by scientists, writers and journalists ...
He lived and felt the immense love to Ukraine and Mathematics and all his short age, he worked tirelessly and creatively for the benefit of science and education of the native people. His brain worked so hard that it seemed it hadn't coped with and exploded, he was always in continuous creative research. " My love is - Ukraine and Maths " that was his credo.
He is a true poet of formulas mathematics for him is creativity, inspiration and joy. He - is also a teacher. His lectures are the power, immense depth and beauty of mathematical thought. His lectures were like a holiday.
life of this great scientist and mathematician flashed like a brilliant race car and, after the arrest and sentence in terror year 1938, was doomed to burn in a few years in harsh Kolyma camps.
However the name of Kravchuk returned to the Ukrainian scientific pantheon and became a role model and continuing his studies in the writings of contemporary and future scientists in Ukraine far beyond Ukraine.