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Albert Badrikian
Albert Badrikian (January 11, 1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ... in Lyon – July 31, 1994 in a crevasse of the Bossons Glacier in the Mont Blanc massif) was a France, French mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Blaise Pascal University. Badrikian co-founded the renowned and influential summer school École d’Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour with Paul-Louis Hennequin. He specialized in stochastic processes, measure theory, and Entropy (information theory), ε-entropy in information theory. Early life and education Badrikian was born on January 11 in 1933 in Lyon, as the third child of a family that had immigrated from Armenia. He attended university in Lyon, where he wrote two thesis papers, including one on stochastic processes in Banach sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 11
Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, and the Quraysh association of clans surrenders. * 930 – Sack of Mecca by the Qarmatians. * 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire. * 1158 – Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia. * 1569 – First recorded lottery in England. 1601–1900 * 1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. * 1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |