ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov

In Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Смирно́в.

Contributed significantly to several areas of pure and applied mathematics. Best known for his 5-volume textbook A Course in Higher Mathematics which was widely used.

Nationality

Russian

History

• Born: 10 June 1887, St Petersburg, Russia
• Died: 11 Feb 1974, Leningrad, USSR

Theorems and Definitions

• Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (with Andrey Kolmogorov)

Books and Papers

• 1913+ : A Course in Higher Mathematics (5 volumes, used throughout Russia and the USSR)

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive