Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
- Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
Infobox Scientist
name = Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov
Юрий Васильевич Прохоров
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birth_date = 1929-12-15
birth_place = Moscow, USSR
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citizenship = Soviet, Russian
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field = Probability theory
work_institutions = Russian Academy of Sciences
alma_mater = Moscow State University
doctoral_advisor = Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
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prizes = Lenin Prize (1970)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975, 1979)
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Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov ( _ru. Юрий Васильевич Прохоров; b. 1929-12-15, Moscow) is a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1949.
Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1966, a full member in 1972. He was a vice-president of the IMU. He received Lenin Prize in 1970, Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1979. He was also an editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
See also
* Lévy-Prokhorov metric
* Prokhorov's theorem
References
* Larry Shepp, "A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov", "Statistical Science", Vol. 7, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 123-130.
External links
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* [http://www.math.ru/history/people/Prohorov_UV Prokhorov's Biography] (in Russian)
* [http://www.cs.msu.ru/jetspeed/portal/content/view/person/history?id=4053657 Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov] (in Russian)
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