Valentin Vladimirovich Petrov - Russian mathematician, specialist in the field of limit theorems of probability theory and probability inequalities.
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| Scientific field | probability theory |
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| Academic degree | Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences |
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Born February 10, 1931 in the village. Kholomki (Pskov region).
He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad University (1952) and graduate school (scientific adviser Yu. V. Linnik ), in 1955 he defended his thesis “Extreme Problems in the Theory of Addition of Independent Random Variables”.
Assistant, senior lecturer, from 1958 assistant professor of the department of probability theory and mathematical statistics, in 1960-1995 head. chair.
In 1961, at the Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his doctoral dissertation “Limit theorems for sums of independent random greatness”, in 1963, he was approved as a professor.
He is the author of 8 books published in Russian, English, Chinese and Spanish, including the monograph Sum of Independent Random Variables (Nauka, Moscow, 1972; an English translation was published in New York in 1975 by Springer).
Laureate of the A. A. Markov Prize of the 1971 Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1999).