Eugene Dynkin | |
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 Eugene Dynkin at home in 2003. Photo courtesy of the Dynkin Collection. | |
| Born | Eugene Borisovich Dynkin 11 May 1924 |
| Died | 14 November 2014 (aged 90) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Moscow University |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow University Central Economic Mathematical Institute Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrey Kolmogorov |
| Doctoral students | Nicolai V. Krylov Igor Girsanov Fridrikh Karpelevich Stanislav Molchanov Anatoliy Skorokhod Nikolai Chentsov Robert Vanderbei Ernest Vinberg |
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (Russian: Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician.[1] He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.