Nail Kutluzhanovich Bakirov (, ) (30 March 1952 – 23 March 2010)Nail K. Bakirov (30.03.1952 – 23.03.2010
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, professor and member of the

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, known for his work in the asymptotic theory of mathematical statistics.''Main scientific works of N. K. Bakirov'', Ufimsk. Mat. Zh., 2:3 (2010), 7–9
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. Bakirov was born in the city of

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. His father had a doctorate in geology and worked for an oil company and his mother was an ophthalmologist. In 1969 he graduated from high school in his native Kazakhstan and was accepted at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at

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. He earned a doctoral degree from the St. Petersburg State University in 1979. Since 1974 his life was connected with

. When the Ufa Mathematics Institute was founded in 1988, Bakirov became its member. Most of his research was devoted to probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Death

In 2010 he died in a road accident (hit by a car) on the way home from work in Ufa, Russia.

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* Probability theorists Russian statisticians 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians 1952 births 2010 deaths {{statistician-stub