Akiva Yaglom

Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom
Yaglom in 1976
Born(1921-03-06)6 March 1921
Died13 December 2007(2007-12-13) (aged 86)
NationalityRussian
Alma materLomonosov Moscow State University
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
AwardsOtto Laporte Award (1988)
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Scientific career
FieldsProbability theory, Turbulence
InstitutionsInstitute of Theoretical Geophysics
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorAndrey Kolmogorov

Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (Russian: Аки́ва Моисе́евич Ягло́м; 6 March 1921 – 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Yaglom spent most of his career in Russia working in various institutions, including the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics.

From 1992 until his death, Yaglom worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research fellow in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[1] He authored several popular books in mathematics and probability, some of them with his twin brother and mathematician Isaak Yaglom.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference MIT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (March 2008). "Prof. A.M. Yaglom". Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. 80 (3). Springer Netherlands: 287–289. Bibcode:2008FTC....80..287B. doi:10.1007/s10494-008-9141-7. ISSN 1573-1987. S2CID 121550164.