Nikolai Nikolayevich Vorobyov (also Vorobiev) (, 18 September 1925, Leningrad — July 14, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, an expert in the field of
abstract algebra
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,
mathematical logic
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and
probability theory
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, the founder of the Soviet school of
game theory
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. He is an author of two textbooks, three monographs, a large number of mathematical articles and a number of popular science books. He supervised over 30
kandidat and D.Sc (
habilitation
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)
dissertations.
Николай Николаевич Воробьев
a biography at the Russian Academy of Sciences
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website.
References
1925 births
1995 deaths
Soviet mathematicians
Game theorists
20th-century Russian mathematicians
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