Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko (; January 1, 1912 – December 27, 1995) was a Soviet mathematician and a student of

Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Soviet ...

. He was born in Simbirsk (now

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk,, , known as Simbirsk until 1924, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk has been the only Russian UNESCO Ci ...

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, and died in

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. He is perhaps best known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...

, particularly

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, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Gnedenko was appointed as Head of the Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Section of the

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in 1949, and became Director of the

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in 1955. Gnedenko was a leading member of the Russian school of probability theory and statistics. He also worked on applications of statistics to reliability and quality control in manufacturing. He wrote a history of mathematics in Russia (published 1946), and with O. B. Sheynin the section on the history of probability theory in the history of mathematics by Kolmogorov and Adolph P. Yushkevich (published 1992). In 1958, he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh with a talk entitled "Limit theorems of probability theory".

Books

* * with A. N. Kolmogorov: * with A. Ya. Khinchin: * * with Yu. K. Belyayev and A. D. Solovyev: * with I. N. Kovalenko:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich 1912 births 1995 deaths People from Ulyanovsk People from Simbirsky Uyezd Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine NASU Institute of Mathematics Soviet mathematicians Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Historians of mathematics Probability theorists Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery