Mathematician:Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
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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
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.