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Pafnuty Chebyshev
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Russian mathematician (1821–1894)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1821-05-16 ) 16 May 1821 , Akatovo , Kaluga Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 8 December 1894 (1894-12-08) (aged 73) , St. Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Other names
- Chebysheff, Chebyshov, Tschebyscheff, Tschebycheff, Tchebycheff
- Alma mater
- Moscow University
- Known for
- Work on probability , statistics , mechanics , analytical geometry and number theory
- Awards
- Demidov Prize (1849)
- Fields
- Mathematician
- Institutions
- St. Petersburg University
- Academic advisors
- Nikolai Brashman
- Notable students
- Dmitry Grave , Aleksandr Korkin , Aleksandr Lyapunov , Andrey Markov , Vladimir Andreevich Markov , Konstantin Posse , Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Notable work
- law of large numbers
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolai Brashman
- Doctoral student
- Andrei Kiselyov
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Чебышёв, Пафнутий Львович.jpg
- Work location
- Saint Petersburg
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- Commons category
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
- date of birth
- 1821-05-04
- date of death
- 1894-11-26
- birth name
- Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв
- name in native language
- Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- chapati
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- professorship
- academician
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Encyclopedic overview
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв, IPA: [pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof]) (16 May [O.S. 4 May] 1821 – 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1894) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
Chebyshev is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of probability, statistics, mechanics, and number theory. A number of important mathematical concepts are named after him, including the Chebyshev inequality (which can be used to prove the weak law of large numbers), the Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem, Chebyshev polynomials, Chebyshev linkage, and Chebyshev bias.
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