Eugene Dynkin

Eugene Dynkin
Color photo of Dynkin in his office, circa 2003
Eugene Dynkin at home in 2003. Photo courtesy of the Dynkin Collection.
Born
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin

(1924-05-11)11 May 1924
Died14 November 2014(2014-11-14) (aged 90)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMoscow University
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMoscow University
Central Economic Mathematical Institute
Cornell University
Doctoral advisorAndrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral studentsNicolai 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.

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