Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
Boris Wladimirowitsch Gnedenko ( Russian Борис Владимирович Гнеденко ; born January 1, 1912 in Simbirsk , † December 27, 1995 in Moscow ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with probability theory .
Life
Gnedenko has Ukrainian roots. He began to study at the University of Saratov at the age of 15 (with the recommendation of the Minister of Culture, Lunacharsky ) and graduated there in 1930. He then taught at the Textile Institute in Ivanovo . In 1934 he came with a scholarship to Lomonossow University in Moscow , where he studied with Andrei Kolmogorow and Alexander Chintschin , with whom he also became friends. In 1942 he completed his habilitation and became a professor in Moscow. From 1945 he was at the Mathematical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . From 1960 he was again a professor in Moscow (Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics), which he remained until his death.
Gnedenko was one of the leading members of the Russian School of Probability Theory and Statistics. He also devoted himself to applications to industrial mass production. He also wrote a history of mathematics in Russia (1942) and with Sheynin the section on the history of probability theory in the history of mathematics by Andrei Kolmogorow and Adolf Pavlovich Yushkewitsch (1992). In 1958 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh (Limit theorems of probability theory).
Fonts
- Sur la distribution limite du terme maximum d'une serie aleatoire . Annals of Mathematics. 1943, pp. 423-453
- with Andrei N. Kolmogorov : Limit distributions of sums of independent random variables . 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960.
- with Vladimir S. Koroljuk and Jekaterina L. Juščenko: Elements of programming . Teubner, Leipzig 1964.
- with Juri K. Beljajew and Alexander D. Solowjew: Mathematical methods of the reliability theory . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968.
- with Igor N. Kowalenko: Introduction to the theory of operation . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971.
- with Alexander J. Chintschin : Elementary introduction to the theory of probability . 12th edition. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1983.
- Textbook of probability theory . 10th edition. Deutsch, Thun, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8171-1531-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Boris Wladimirowitsch Gnedenko in the catalog of the German National Library
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Boris Wladimirowitsch Gnedenko. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simbirsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1995 |
| Place of death | Moscow |