Mathematician:Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko

Mathematician

Soviet mathematician best known for his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory.

Nationality

Soviet Russian

History

• Born: January 1, 1912 in Simbirsk, Russian Empire
• Died: December 27, 1995 in Moscow

Theorems and Definitions

• Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko Theorem (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett)

Results named for Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko can be found here.

Publications

• 1943: Sur La Distribution Limite Du Terme Maximum D'Une Serie Aleatoire (Ann. Math. Vol. 44: pp. 423 – 453)  www.jstor.org/stable/1968974
• 1954: Limit distributions for sums of independent random variables (with A.N. Kolmogorov)
• 1962: An elementary introduction to the theory of probability (with A.Ya. Khinchin)
• 1969: The theory of probability
• 1969: Mathematical methods of reliability theory (with Yu.K. Belyayev and A.D. Solovyev)
• 1989: Introduction to queueing theory (with I.N. Kovalenko)

Also known as

In Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Гнеде́нко.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive