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models, completely integrable systems and matrix models, nonperturbative methods
in quantum field theory. In 1992, the staff of the Department included: I. Ya.
Aref'eva, O. I. Zav'yalov, V. P. Pavlov, A. K. Pogrebkov, A. A. Slavnov (Head
of the Department), Iurii M. Zinov'ev, V. M. Muzafarov, N. A. Slavnov, L. O.
Chekhov, and S. A. Frolov.
13. Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics: From the
time when the Department was organized in 1938, and until 1960, the Head of the
Department was A. N. Kolmogorov (excluding 1946-1948 when A. Ya. Khinchin
occupied this position) and after 1960, it was headed by Iurii V. Prokhorov. During
some period, a part of the Department existed independently under the name of the
Department of Mathematical Statistics successively headed by N. V. Smirnov, L.
N. Bol'shev, D. M. Chibisov, and from 1983 to 1987 by A. N. Kolmogorov.
Research in Probability Theory and in Statistics also was done outside the
Department (S. N. Bernshtein, O. V. Sarmanov). In the Department itself,
investigations in these fields were carried out by A. N. Kolmogorov, A. Ya.
Khinchin, E. E. Slutskii, and N. V. Smirnov. At the end of the 1940s, the
Department was joined by B. A. Sevast'yanov and Iurii V. Prokhorov, and at the
beginning of the 1950s, by L. N. Bol'shev . At that time, a close assistant of A. N.
Kolmogorov was A. A. Petrov.
At the present time, the staff of the Department includes: K. A. Borovkov, A. A.
Gushchin, E. S. Kedrova, V. I. Khokhlov, A. S. Holevo, V. K. Malinovskii, A.
V. Melnikov, A. A. Novikov, Iurii V. Prokhorov, Iurii A. Rozanov, V. V.
Sazonov, A. N. Shiryaev, B. S. Stechkin, O. V. Viskov, A. L. akymiv, V. M.
Olotarev. During different times in the Staff except those already mentioned were S.
A. Aivazyan, V. F. Kolchin, V. P. Leonov, Iurii O. Senko. Special appointments
for preparation to the degree Doctor of Sciences had Iurii V. Prokhorov, V. S.
Semenov(subsequently an Air Force General), S. Kh. Sirazhdinov. A. N.
Kolmogorov was the scientific adviser of all of them. Among graduate students at
the Department were A. A. Borovkov, N. N. Chentsov, G. M. Maniya, E. A.
Nadaraia (aya) . In the 1950s, in the Department there was a group of people
working on statistical control in industry (I. A. Borodachev and his collaborators).
Along with theoretical research (details on its main directions see below) applied
investigations were always carried out in the Department. Among them were
1. Theory of shell scattering (A. N. Kolmogorov);
2. Statistical quality control (A. N. Kolmogorov, S. A. Aivazyan, A. N. Bol'shev, and S.
Kh. Sirazhdinov);
3. Composition of statistical tables, which A. N. Kolmogorov considered to be very
important (E. E. Slutskii, N. V. Smirnov, L. N. Bol'shev and their assistants E.
S. Kedrova, V. F. Kotelnikova, and M. A. Rybinskaia (aya));
4. In the 1940s, in the Department there was a regular seminar on queuing theory (A. Ya.
Khinchin, Iurii V. Prokhorov, and B. A. Sevast'yanov) with participation of
specialists in teletraffic and other applied fields.
In connection with the translation into Russian of G. Cramer's book ``Mathematical
methods of Statistics'' the work on creation and perfection of Russian statistical
terminology was initiated by (A. N. Kolmogorov, and A. A. Petrov).
Main directions of theoretical research in the Department were: 1. Foundations of
Probability Theory (measure theoretic approach--A. N. Kolmogorov, V. V.
Sazonov, Iurii V. Prokhorov, and an algorithm complexity approach--A. N.
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