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Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
(; January 1, 1912 – December 27, 1995) was a
Soviet
mathematician and a student of
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
. He was born in
Simbirsk
(now
Ulyanovsk
),
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 also became Director of the Kiev Institute of Mathematics in the same year.
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