Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky (; 4 December 1879, Verny – 6 December 1954,

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) was a Russian, Soviet and Uzbek mathematician, founder of the Tashkent school of mathematics.

Education and career

In 1906 Romanovsky received, under the supervision of

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, his doctoral degree from

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. During 1900–1908 he was a student and then a docent at St. Petersburg University. In 1911–1915 he was a senior lecturer and then professor at the

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, in 1915–1918 a professor at the Imperial University of Warsaw in Rostov-on-Don, and from 1918 a professor of probability and mathematical statistics at what is now called the

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(in

). His doctoral students include

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. Romanovsky gained an international reputation for his work in mathematical statistics and probability theory. In 1943 he was made an Academician of the

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. The Uzbek Academy of Sciences' Romanovsky Institute of Mathematics is named in his honor. Romanovsky was an Invited Speaker at the

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in 1928 in Bologna and in 1932 in Zürich. His body was buried in Tashkent in the Botkin Cemetery.

Awards and honors

* 1944:

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* 1948: Stalin Prize of the third class (for the development and introduction of new methods of drawing up the short-term and long-term weather forecasts) * 16 January 1950:

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* 23 August 2004:

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– posthumous award by presidential decree of the

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Selected works

* ''Романовский В. И.'' Элементарный курс математической статистики. (Elementary course in mathematical statistics) – М.-Л. Госпланиздат, 1924. * ''Романовский В. И.'' Элементы теории корреляции. (Elements of correlation theory) 1928 г. – 148 pages. * ''Романовский В. И.'' Математическая статистика. (Mathematical statistics) – М.-Л. Гос.объед. научно-тех.изд. НКТП СССР. 1938. – 527 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Элементарный курс математической статистики. (Elementary course in mathematical statistics) – М.-Л. Госпланиздат, 1939. – 359 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Введение в анализ. (Introduction to analysis) – Ташкент. Гос.учебно-педагог. изд., 1939. – 436 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' О предельных распределениях для стохастических процессов с дискретным временем. (On limiting distributions for stochastic processes with discrete time) – Изд. Среднеаз. Гос. Унив. Ташкент, 1946. – 24 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Применения математической статистики в опытном деле. (Applications of mathematical statistics in the test case) – Гостехиздат, М.-Л.,1947. – 248 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Основные задачи теории ошибок. (The main tasks of the theory of errors) – ОГИЗ. Гостехиздат, М.-Л., 1947. – 116 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Дискретные цепи Маркова. (Discrete Markov chains) – Гостехиздат, М.-Л. 1949. – 436 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Математическая статистика. Кн.1. Основы теории вероятностей и математической статистики. (Mathematical statistics. Book 1. Fundamentals of the theory of probability and mathematical statistics) – Ташкент, 1961. – 637 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Математическая статистика. Кн.2. Оперативные методы математической статистики. (Mathematical statistics. Book 2. Operational methods of mathematical statistics) – Ташкент, 1963. – 794 pages * ''Романовский В. И.'' Избранные труды. Т.1. (Selected Works. V.1) – Изд-во "Наука" Узб. ССР. Ташкент. 1961. * ''Романовский В. И.'' Избранные труды. Т.2. (Selected Works. V.2) – Теория вероятностей, статистика и анализ. (Theory of probability, statistics and analysis) Изд-во "Наука" Узб. ССР. Ташкент. 1964. – 390 pages

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanovsky, Vsevolod 1879 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians People from Almaty Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Saint Petersburg State University alumni Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Stalin Prize Mathematical statisticians Mathematicians from the Russian Empire Statisticians from the Russian Empire Russian statisticians Soviet mathematicians Uzbekistani mathematicians Recipients of the Order of Outstanding Merit

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