Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov

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Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Smirnov , Russian Николай Васильевич Смирнов , English transcription Nikolai Vasilieyvich Smirnov, (born October 17, 1900 in Moscow ; †  June 2, 1966 ibid) was a leading Soviet mathematical statistician.

Smirnow, whose ancestors were little employees of the Orthodox Church, was in a medical unit during World War I and then in the Red Army. He initially dealt with philosophy and philology, but began to study mathematics at Lomonosov University in 1921, graduating in 1926. He then taught at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and an agricultural academy. He turned to probability theory and statistics and was habilitated (Russian doctorate) at Lomonossow University in 1938 with a dissertation (on the approximation of a distribution of random variables), which laid the foundations for his work with nonparametric statistics. From 1938 he was at the Steklow Institute , where he stayed until the end of his life and, in the last year of his life, headed the department of mathematical statistics as the successor to Andrei Kolmogorow .

He is known for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and other contributions to parameter-free statistics . He was also an expert in asymptotic methods in statistics, especially the analytical evaluation of multiple integrals (in complexes) when the number of variables tends to infinity. With his student Login Nikolajewitsch Bolschew he published a widespread table of mathematical statistics in 1965 and completed the work of his friend Yevgeny Evgenyevich Sluzki (EE Slutskii) on statistical tables. He also wrote a statistical textbook that was widely used at the time and focused on practical applications.

In 1951 he received the State Prize of the USSR . In 1960 he became a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

  • with IW Dunin-Barkowski: Mathematical Statistics in Technology, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2nd edition 1969
  • On the estimation of the discrepancy between empirical curves of distribution for two independent samples. In: Bull. Universite Moskov. Ser. Boarding school Sect. A2 (1939), pp. 3-19 (Kolmogorov-Smirnov test)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the entry of SA Aivazian in Norman Johnson, Samuel Kotz (Ed.), Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences, Wiley, 1997, pp. 208f
  2. ↑ For Kolmogorov's contribution, Sachs, Hedderich Angewandte Statistik (Springer 2006), cited the book Basic Concepts of Probability Calculation , Springer 1933, by Kolmogorov
personal data
SURNAME Smirnow, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1966
Place of death Moscow