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Q176659
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Russian mathematician
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Place of birth
- Ryazan
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Child
- Andrei Markov
- Sibling
- Vladimir Andreyevich Markov
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- Markov number
- Doctoral advisor
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
- Doctoral student
- Georgy Voronoy
- Field of work
- Markov process
- Image
- AAMarkov.jpg
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- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Volkovo Cemetery Writer's Walkways
- Commons category
- Andrey Markov
- date of birth
- 1856-06-14
- date of death
- 1922-07-20
- member of
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- civil rank
- Active State Councillor
- birth name
- Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков
- name in native language
- Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem—to sequences of dependent random variables, laying the groundwork for what would become known as Markov chains. To illustrate his methods, he analyzed the distribution of vowels and consonants in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, treating letters purely as abstract categories and stripping away any poetic or semantic content.
He was also a strong chess player.
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