# Boris Gnedenko

> Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko was a Soviet mathematician and a student of Andrey Kolmogorov. He was born in Simbirsk, Russia, and died in Moscow. He is perhaps best known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Gnedenko was appointed as Head of the Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Section of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1949, and became Director of the NASU Institute of Mathematics in 1955.

*Soviet/Russian mathematician (1912-1995)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/boris-gnedenko

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1912-01-01
- **Died:** 1995-12-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
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- [Гнеденко, Борис Владимирович](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q893804)

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