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the National Committee of Mathematicians of the Russian Federation. He also
heads the International Institute named after I. Eiler located in St Petersburg. (GSE
27, p. 86.)
National Committee of Bernoulli Society on Mathematical Statistics,
Probability Theory, Combinatorics and its Application
42, Vavilov st., Moscow V-333, GSP-1, 117966
Directed by Academician Iurii V. Prokhorov, tel. 135-23-80
Prokhorov, Iurii V., D. PM. S. Born in December 1929 in Moscow. Russian
mathematician. He has been a corresponding member of the Mathematics
Department of the Academy since 1966 and an academician since 1972. He
graduated from Moscow State University in 1949 and became a professor there in
1957. He began working at the V. A. Steklov Mathematics Institute in 1949. His
principal works are in probability theory, particularly asymptotic methods. He has
researched classical limit theorems, investigating conditions under which the strong
law of large numbers and other so-called local theorems can be applied to sums of
independent random variables. He has made major contributions to the queuing
theory. Since 1969, he has been a Deputy Director of the V. A. Steklov
Mathematics Institute in Moscow, that was established in 1921 and that does
research in pure mathematics and mathematical physics. Since 1976, he has headed
the Probability Theory Department of the Steklov Institute. He was on the head
Editorial Board of the third edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He received
the Lenin Prize in 1970. He directs the work of the National Committee of
Bernoulli Society on Mathematical Statistics, Probability Theory, Combinatorics
and its Application. (GSE 21, p. 257.)
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Greatest Growth Period: The period of greatest growth in the assignment of personnel
to the two Steklov research institutes directly subordinate to the Mathematics
Department of the Russian Academy was from 1970 to 1980, as Figure 14 shows.
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