Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov

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Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov (10 August 1917 – 21 June 1947) was a Russian theoretical physicist known for his work on the foundations of statistical physics. He showed that a sufficient condition for a dynamical system to relax to equilibrium is for it to be mixing.

Krylov was born in Ustyuzhna (now in Vologda Oblast of Russia). He graduated from Leningrad University with a degree in physics. He then studied with Fock and wrote a thesis on the foundations of statistical mechanics titled Mixing processes in phase space.

Krylov died after a prolonged illness.

[edit] References

  • N. S. Krylov (1979). Works on the foundations of statistical physics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08227-8. 


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