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Yuri Linnik

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Yuri Linnik
Born
Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik

(1915-01-08)January 8, 1915
DiedJune 30, 1972(1972-06-30) (aged 57)
NationalityRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg University
Steklov Institute
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsSaint Petersburg University

Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ли́нник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Biography

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Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to Saint Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovsky, and later worked at that university and the Steklov Institute. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as was his father, Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik. He was awarded both Stalin and Lenin Prizes. He died in Leningrad.[1]

Work in number theory

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Work in probability theory and statistics

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Infinitely divisible distributions

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Linnik obtained numerous results concerning infinitely divisible distributions.[4] In particular, he proved the following generalisation of Cramér's theorem: any divisor of a convolution of Gaussian and Poisson random variables is also a convolution of Gaussian and Poisson.

He has also coauthored the book Linnik & Ostrovskii (1977) on the arithmetics of infinitely divisible distributions.

Central limit theorem

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Statistics

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Selected publications

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  • Linnik, Yu.V. (1971), Independent and stationary sequences of random variables, Series of Monographs and Textbooks on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing
  • Linnik, Yu.V. (1961), Method of least squares and principles of the theory of observations, New York-Oxford-London-Paris: Pergamon Press, MR 0124121
  • Linnik, Yu.V.; Ostrovskii, I.V. (1977), Decomposition of random variables and vectors, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, vol. 48, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society
  • Linnik, Yu.V. (1968), Ergodic properties of algebraic fields, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 45, New York: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Notes

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  1. ^ Faddeyev, D. K.; Lozinsky, S. M.; Malyshev, A. V. (1975), "Yuri V. Linnik (1915–1972): a biographical note", Acta Arith., 27: 1–2, doi:10.4064/aa-27-1-1-2, MR 0421941.
  2. ^ Bredikhin, B.M. (2001) [1994], "Density method", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
  3. ^ Michel, Ph.; Venkatesh, A. (2006), "Equidistribution, L-functions and ergodic theory: on some problems of Yu. V. Linnik", Proceedings of ICM 2006, vol. 2, Zurich: Eur. Math. Soc., pp. 421–457
  4. ^ Ibragimov, I. A. (1992), "Yu. V. Linnik. Some of his work from the 1950s", St. Petersburg Math. J., 3 (3): 687–696, MR 1150561.
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