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Born June 14, 1856 • Ryazan • Russia
Died July 20, 1922 (aged 66) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Markov chain • Markov process • central limit theorem • stochastic process
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician
Varadhan, S.R. Srinivasa
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Indian mathematician
Richard von Mises
American mathematician
Blackwell, David
David Blackwell
American statistician and mathematician
Quetelet, Adolphe
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, sociologist, and statistician
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist
Understand how Bayes's theorem can make educated mathematical guesses when there is not much to go on
Thomas Bayes
English theologian and mathematician
Paul Lévy
French mathematician
Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor
German mathematician
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist.
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Russian mathematician
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Soviet mathematician
Yakov Sinai
Russian-American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Sofya Kovalevskaya, c. 1875–80.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Russian mathematician

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