Andrey Markov
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Andrey Andreyevich Markov (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.
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See also
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References
- A. A. Markov. "Rasprostranenie zakona bol'shih chisel na velichiny, zavisyaschie drug ot druga". Izvestiya Fiziko-matematicheskogo obschestva pri Kazanskom universitete, 2-ya seriya, tom 15, pp 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.
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External links
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- The Life and Work of AA Markov (http://mac03-204ha.math.ncsu.edu/~langville/naoumov.pdf)
- Andrey Andreevich Markov (1903-1979) (http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/Markov/) (biography of Markov's son, located at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg)
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