Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin

Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
Vladimir Rokhlin in Leningrad, 1966.
Born	(1919-08-23)23 August 1919 Baku, Azerbaijan
Died	3 December 1984(1984-12-03) (aged 65) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Citizen of the Soviet Union
Education	Moscow State University (1935-1941)
Known for	Rokhlin lemma Rokhlin partitions Rokhlin's theorem Standard probability space
Children	Vladimir Rokhlin, Jr.
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Leningrad State University
Academic advisors	Abraham Plessner
Notable students	Yakov Eliashberg Mikhail Gromov Nikolai V. Ivanov Viatcheslav M. Kharlamov Anatoly Vershik Oleg Viro

Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (Russian: Влади́мир Абра́мович Ро́хлин) (23 August 1919 – 3 December 1984) was a Soviet mathematician, who made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entropy theory.^[1]