Yuri Linnik

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Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Линник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Russian mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University and later worked at the university and Steklov Institute. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as was his father, Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik. He was awarded both State and Lenin Prizes. He died in St Petersburg.

Contents 1 Work in Number theory 2 Work in Probability Theory and Statistics 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Work in Number theory

• Linnik's theorem in analytic number theory
• an elementary proof of the Hilbert-Waring theorem.

[edit] Work in Probability Theory and Statistics

• Linnik zones (zones of asymptotic normality)
• Information-theoretic proof of the central limit theorem
• Behrens-Fisher problem

[edit] See also

• Schnirelmann density

[edit] References

• I.A.Ibragimov, Yu.V.Linnik, Independent and stationary sequences of random variables, Edited by JFC, Wolters-Noordhoff Series of Monographs and Textbooks on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1971
• Yu.V.Linnik, Method of Least Squares, Fizmatgiz, Moscow, 1962
• Yu.V.Linnik, I.V.Ostrovskii, Decomposition of random variables and vectors, Translated from the Russian. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol. 48. American Mathematical Society, Providence, R. I., 1977. ix+380 pp.

[edit] External links

• Yuri Linnik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Yuri Linnik”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Obituary – from Acta Arithmetica
• Acta Arithmetica: Linnik memorial issue (1975)