Akiva Moisseyevich Jaglom
Akiwa Moissejewitsch Jaglom , English Akiva Yaglom ( Russian Акива Моисеевич Яглом ; born March 6, 1921 in Kharkiv , Ukraine ; † December 12, 2007 in Boston ) was a Russian mathematician and physicist.
Jaglom moved with his family to Moscow in 1926, where he and his brother won mathematics prizes as a schoolboy and from 1938 studied mathematics and physics at the Lomonossow University and graduated from the Sverdlovsk University in 1942. In 1946 he received his doctorate at the Steklow Institute for Mathematics under Andrei Kolmogorow ( On the statistical reversibility of Brownian movement ). In 1955 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the application of stochastic processes in turbulence theory with Kolmogorow (Russian doctor). He then worked (after rejecting an offer from Igor Tamm to work on physical problems of nuclear weapons) at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was a professor in the Probability Theory Department of Lomonosov University. In 1992 he moved to the USA, where he worked at MIT .
Jaglom dealt with stationary random processes. Together with Andrei Kolmogorow, he is one of the founders of the statistical theory of (homogeneous) turbulence in Russia (independently examined in Germany by Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ).
In 1988 he received the Otto Laporte Prize from the American Physical Society. In 2008 he was posthumously awarded the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal from the European Geosciences Union.
He is the twin brother of the mathematician Isaak Jaglom , with whom he wrote the book Probability and Information .
Fonts
- with Andrei Sergejewitsch Monin : Statistical fluid mechanics , MIT Press, 2 volumes, 1971
- Introduction to the theory of stationary random functions , Berlin, Akademie Verlag 1959 (English: An introduction to the theory of stationary random functions, Prentice Hall 1962, Dover 2004)
- Correlation theory of stationary and correlated random functions , 2 volumes, Springer 1987
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaglom, Akiwa Moissejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaglom, Akiva; Яглом, Акива Моисеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Boston |