Pafnuty Chebyshev

Pafnuty Chebyshev
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev
Born	(1821-05-16)16 May 1821[1] Akatovo, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died	8 December 1894(1894-12-08) (aged 73)[1] St. Petersburg, Russian Empire[1]
Nationality	Russian
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)
Scientific career
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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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)^[2] 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.