Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko

Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko (Russian Борис Владимирович Гнеденко; * January 1, 1912 in Simbirsk, † December 27, 1995 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician who was concerned with probability theory.

Gnedenko has Ukrainian roots. He started at age 15 to study at the University of Saratov ( with the recommendation of the Minister of Education Lunacharsky ), where he made his degree in 1930. He then taught at the Textile Institute in Ivanovo. In 1934, he came with a scholarship at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, where he studied with Andrei Kolmogorov and Khinchin Alexander, with whom he also befriended. In 1942 he qualified as a professor 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 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 dedicated himself to those applications on 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 Kolmogorov and Adolf Pavlovich Yushkevich (1992). In 1958 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh (Limit theorems of probability theory ).

Writings

  • With Andrei N. Kolmogorov: Limit distributions of sums of independent random variables. 2nd edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Vladimir S. Koroljuk and Ekaterina L. Juščenko: Elements of Programming. Teubner, Leipzig 1964.
  • With Yuri K. Belyayev and Alexander D. Soloviev: Mathematical Methods of Reliability Theory. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  • Igor N. Kovalenko: Introduction to the operation theory. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971.
  • Alexander J. Khinchin: Elementary introduction to the theory of probability. 12th edition. German Academic Publishers, Berlin 1983.
  • Textbook on probability theory. 10th edition. German, Thun, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8171-1531-8.
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