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Andrey Andreyevich Markov</td></tr>

Born

June 14, 1856 N.S. Ryazan, Russia <tr><th>Died</th><td>July 20, 1922 Petrograd, Russia</td></tr><tr><th>Residence</th><td>Russia</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Russian</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Mathematician</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>St Petersburg University</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>St Petersburg University</td></tr><tr><th>Academic Advisor</th><td>Pafnuty Chebyshev</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Students</th><td>Abram Besicovitch </br> Georgy Voronoy</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Markov chains</td></tr>

Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Марков) (June 14, 1856 N.S. – July 20, 1922) was a Russian mathematician. Markov was born in Ryazan. He studied at St. Petersburg University in 1874 under the tutelage of Chebyshev. In 1886, he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His research later became known as Markov chains. In late 19th century, the Moscow school of probability mixed math and religion assuming that the stability of frequencies proves free will, hence existence of God. Markov, an atheist, proved that Central Limit Theorem works also for random variables that are not independent, discrediting the ideas from Moscow school.

His son another Andrey Andreevich Markov (1903-1979) was also a notable mathematician.

[edit] See also

• Markov chain
• Markov chain Monte Carlo
• Gauss-Markov theorem
• Gauss–Markov process
• Hidden Markov model
• Markov number
• Markov property
• Markov's inequality
• Markov process
• Markov blanket
• Markov network

[edit] References

• А. А. Марков. "Распространение закона больших чисел на величины, зависящие друг от друга". "Известия Физико-математического общества при Казанском университете", 2-я серия, том 15, ст. 135-156, 1906.
• A.A. Markov. "Extension of the limit theorems of probability theory to a sum of variables connected in a chain". reprinted in Appendix B of: R. Howard. Dynamic Probabilistic Systems, volume 1: Markov Chains. John Wiley and Sons, 1971.

[edit] External links

• Andrey Markov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Andrey Markov". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• Biography of A.A. Markov
• Biography of A.A. Markov by his son, A.A. Markov-jnr (Russian)
• Andrey Andreevich Markov (1903-1979) (biography of Markov's son, located at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg)de:Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow

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