How to Pronounce Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
#50
Most Popular
Boost
Jan 01, 1912 Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia Died on 27 Dec 1995 (aged 83)
Russian mathematician
CapricornBoris Vladimirovich Gnedenko - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
- Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko (Russian: ????´? ?????´??????? ?????´???; January 1, 1912 – December 27, 1995) was a Soviet mathematician and a student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.
- He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia, and died in Moscow.
- He is perhaps best known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem.
- Gnedenko was appointed as Head of the Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Section of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1949, and also became Director of the Kiev Institute of Mathematics in the same year. Gnedenko was a leading member of the Russian school of probability theory and statistics.
- He also worked on applications of statistics to reliability and quality control in manufacturing.
- He wrote a history of mathematics in Russia (published 1946) and with O.
- B.
- Sheynin the section on the history of probability theory in the history of mathematics by Andrei Kolmogorov and Adolph P.
- Yushkevich (published 1992).
- In 1958 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh with a talk entitled "Limit theorems of probability theory".
