Alexander Dmitrievich Wentzell (Александр Дмитриевич Вентцель, born 16 February 1937, Moscow) is a Russian-American mathematician. Wentzell graduated from

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in 1958 and received in 1964 his Russian candidate degree (similar to Ph.D.) from the

Steklov Institute Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute () is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute is named after Vladimir Andreevich Ste ...

in Moscow with advisor

Eugene Dynkin Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynk ...

. He taught from 1961 as a docent at Moscow State University and from 1966 to 1991 as an assistant professor. In 1984 he received his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree) from Moscow State University. For the academic year 1991–1992 he was a visiting professor at the

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and for the academic year 1992–93 at the

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. Since 1993 he has been a professor at

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. His research deals with stochastic processes, probability theory,

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, and partial differential equations. In 1963 he received the Prize of the

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. In 1978 he was an Invited Speaker at the

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Selected publications

*with

Mark Freidlin Mark Iosifovich Freidlin (, born 1938). See also Russian version, . is a Russian-American probability theorist who works as a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is one of the namesakes ...

: Random perturbations of dynamical systems, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 260, Springer 1984; ;

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External links

Genealogy Tree of Dynkin's School, Department of Mathematics, Cornell UniversityAlexander Dmitrievich Wentzell, Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell Librarymathnet.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wentzell, Alexander D. 1937 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University Tulane University faculty