Aleksandr Alekseevich Borovkov (Александр Алексеевич Боровков; born 6 March 1931, in

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(in Russian)) is a Russian mathematician. Borovkov received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1959 under

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and his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree) in 1963. He is an academician at the

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of the Siberian Branch of the

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and a professor at the

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. His research deals with probability theory, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes. He was an Invited Speaker of the

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in 1966 in

and in 1978 in

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(Rate of convergence and large deviations in invariance principle). He was elected in 1966 a corresponding member and in 1990 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1979 he received the

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. Winner of the Kolmogorov Prize (2015).

Selected publications

*Stochastic processes in queueing theory. Springer, 1976 *Asymptotic methods in queuing theory. Wiley, 1984.
Probability Theory
New York: Gordon & Breach, 1998 *Mathematical Statistics. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1998 *Ergodicity and stability of stochastic processes. New York: Wiley, 1998. *with A. A. Mogulskii: Large deviations and testing statistical hypothesis, Siber. Adv. Math., 1992, 1993 *with Konstantin A. Borovkov
Asymptotic analysis of random walks
Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 118. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

References

External links

mathnet.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Borovkov, Aleksandr 1931 births Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Recipients of the USSR State Prize Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences