Andrey Markov

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Andrey Markov
Андрей Марков
Markov in 1886
Born	(1856-06-14)14 June 1856 N.S. Ryazan, Russian Empire
Died	20 July 1922(1922-07-20) (aged 66) Petrograd, Russian SFSR
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	St. Petersburg University
Known for	Markov chains Markov processes Stochastic processes
Children	Andrey Markov Jr.
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, specifically probability theory and statistics
Institutions	St. Petersburg University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Abram Besicovitch Nikolai Günther Veniamin Kagan V. I. Romanovsky Jacob Tamarkin J. V. Uspensky Georgy Voronoy

Andrey Andreyevich Markov^[a] (14 June 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as the Markov chain. He was also a strong, close to master-level, chess player.

Markov and his younger brother Vladimir Andreevich Markov (1871–1897) proved the Markov brothers' inequality. His son, another Andrey Andreyevich Markov (1903–1979), was also a notable mathematician, making contributions to constructive mathematics and recursive function theory.^[2]

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