Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
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Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Прохоров; b. 15 December 1929, Moscow) is a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1949.
Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1966, a full member in 1972. He was a vice-president of the IMU. He received Lenin Prize in 1970, Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1979. He was also an editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
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- Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Prokhorov's Biography (in Russian)
- Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (in Russian)
[edit] References
- Larry Shepp, "A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov", Statistical Science, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 123-130.
