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Boris Gnedenko

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Soviet/Russian mathematician (1912-1995)

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Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko was a Soviet mathematician and a student of Andrey Kolmogorov. He was born in Simbirsk, Russia, and died in Moscow.

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1994Honoured Professor of Moscow State University
1982Mikhail Lomonosov Award
1981Order of Friendship of Peoples
1979USSR State Prize
1974Patriotic Order of Merit
1974Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov Gold Medal
1962Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1956Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1946Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
1944Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze

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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.

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Lived 1912 to 1995 · aged 83
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