Robert Adol'fovich Minlos (; 28 February 1931 – 9 January 2018) was a

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and

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who has made important contributions to

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 ...

and

mathematical physics Mathematical physics is the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the de ...

. His theorem on the extension of

cylindrical measure In mathematics, cylinder set measure (or promeasure, or premeasure, or quasi-measure, or CSM) is a kind of prototype for a measure on an infinite-dimensional vector space. An example is the Gaussian cylinder set measure on Hilbert space. Cylinder ...

s to

Radon measure In mathematics (specifically in measure theory), a Radon measure, named after Johann Radon, is a measure on the -algebra of Borel sets of a Hausdorff topological space that is finite on all compact sets, outer regular on all Borel sets, and ...

s on the

continuous dual In mathematics, any vector space ''V'' has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear forms on ''V,'' together with the vector space structure of pointwise addition and scalar multiplication by const ...

of a

nuclear space In mathematics, nuclear spaces are topological vector spaces that can be viewed as a generalization of finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces and share many of their desirable properties. Nuclear spaces are however quite different from Hilbert spaces, ...

is of fundamental importance in the theory of generalized random processes. He died on 9 January 2018 at the age of 86.In memoriam. Роберт Адольфович Минлос (28.02.1931 – 09.01.2018)

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