Akiva Yaglom

Akiva 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 in 1926 with his family to Moscow, where he was still a schoolboy won with his brother mathematics prices and from 1938 studied mathematics and physics at the Moscow State University and his diploma in 1942 took off at the University of Sverdlovsk. In 1946 he was at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at Andrei Kolmogorov doctorate (On the statistical reversibility of Brownian motion). In 1955 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the use of stochastic processes in turbulence theory for Kolmogorov (Russian doctor ). He then worked ( after he rejected an offer by Igor Tamm, to work on physical problems of nuclear weapons) at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was a professor in the Department of Probability Theory to Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1992 he moved to the USA where he worked at MIT.

Jaglom dealt with stationary random processes. He is with Andrei Kolmogorov one of the founders of the statistical theory of ( homogeneous ) turbulence in Russia ( independent in Germany by Werner Heisenberg examined).

In 1988 he received the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society. In 2008, he posthumously received the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal of the European Geosciences Union.

He is the twin brother of the mathematician Isaac Jaglom, with whom he wrote the book probability and information.

Writings

• With Andrei Monin: Statistical fluid mechanics, MIT Press, 2 volumes, 1971
• Introduction to the theory of stationary random functions, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1959 ( in 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