Alexey Yakovlevich Chervonenkis (; 7 September 1938 – 22 September 2014) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Along with

Vladimir Vapnik Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (; born 6 December 1936) is a statistician, researcher, and academic. He is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning and the co-inventor of the support-vector machine method ...

, he was one of the main developers of the

Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory (also known as VC theory) was developed during 1960–1990 by Vladimir Vapnik and Alexey Chervonenkis. The theory is a form of computational learning theory, which attempts to explain the learning process from a stat ...

, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning", an important part of

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. Chervonenkis held joint appointments with the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

and

Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public university, public research university and a constituent college, member institution of the federal University of London. It ...

. Alexey Chervonenkis got lost in

Losiny Ostrov National Park Losiny Ostrov National Park (, literally - ''Moose, Elk (Moose) Island'') is the second oldest national park of Russia (after Sochi National Park). It is located in Moscow and Moscow Oblast. It is the List of urban parks by size, largest urban ...

on 22 September 2014, and later during a search operation was found dead near

Mytishchi Mytishchi ( rus, Мыти́щи, p=mɨˈtʲiɕːɪ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies 19 km northeast of Russia's capital Moscow o ...

, a suburb of Moscow. He had died of

hypothermia Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans. Symptoms depend on the temperature. In mild hypothermia, there is shivering and mental confusion. In moderate hypothermia, shivering stops and confusion increases. In severe ...

References

External links

Chervonenkis' brief biography
from the Computer Learning Research Centre, Royal Holloway. 1938 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Russian computer scientists Soviet computer scientists Soviet mathematicians Russian statisticians Deaths from hypothermia Jewish Russian scientists {{Compu-AI-stub