Vyacheslav Vasilievich Sazonov (Вячеслав Васильевич Сазонов, born August 25, 1935, Moscow – February 3, 2002, Moscow)Сазонов Вячеслав Васильевич, letopsis.msu.ru
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Sazonov's theorem In mathematics, Sazonov's theorem, named after Vyacheslav Vasilievich Sazonov (), is a theorem in functional analysis. It states that a bounded linear operator between two Hilbert spaces is ''γ''-radonifying if it is a Hilbert–Schmidt op ...

Education and career

In 1958 he graduated from

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. There he received in 1961 his Ph.D. under Yuri Prokhorov with thesis "Распределения вероятностей и характеристические функционалы" (Probability distributions and characteristic functionals). Sazonov worked in the

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from 1958 to 2002. In 1968 he received his Russian doctorate of sciences (

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) with thesis "Исследования по многомерным и бесконечномерным предельным теоремам теории вероятностей" (Investigations of multidimensional, infinite-dimensional and limit theorems of the theory of probabilities). In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker at the

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in Nice. In 1971 he was awarded the academic title of Professor in Mathematics and became a member of the

CPSU The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

. From 1971 to 1999, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University. Professor Sazonov has been deputy editor-in-chief of the journal '' Theory of Probability and Its Applications'' for about two decades.

Awards

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize () was one of the Soviet Union’s highest civilian honours, awarded from its establishment in September 1966 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. It recognised outstanding contributions in the fields of science, mathem ...

(1979, jointly with Aleksandr A. Borovkov and V. Statulevičius) for a series of works on asymptotic methods in the theory of probability.

Selected publications

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References

External links

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Труды Сазонова
(publication list in Russian)
Персональная страница на сайте Общероссийский математический портал (personal page on the site all-Russian mathematical portal mathnet.ru)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sazonov, Vyacheslav Vasilievich 1935 births 2002 deaths Moscow State University alumni Probability theorists Soviet mathematicians 20th-century Russian mathematicians