kniga 7 - Probability and Statistics 1 - Sheynin, Oscar

As a result, the issues of mathematical statistics began to interest me, and it seemed to methat, once I return to this field and focus all my power there, I would to a larger extent benefitmy mother country and the cause of the socialist transformation of social relations. Afteraccomplishing a few works which resulted from my groping for my own sphere of research, Iconcentrated on generalizing the stochastic methods to the statistical treatment of observationsnot being mutually independent in the sense of the theory of probability.It seemed to me, that, along with theoretical investigations, I ought to study some concreteproblems so as to check my methods and to find problems for theoretical work in a number ofresearch institutes. For me, the methodical approach to problems and the attempts to preventdeviations from the formulated goal always were in the forefront. In applications, I consider asmost fruitful my contributions, although not numerous, in the field of geophysics.I have written this in December 1938, when compiling my biography on the occasion of myfirst entering the Steklov Mathematical Institute at the Academy of Sciences of the SovietUnion. I described in sufficient detail the story of my life and internal development up to thebeginning of my work at Moscow State University and later events are sufficiently welloutlined in my completed form. I shall only add, that, while working at the University, mymain activity had been not teaching but work at the Mathematical Research Institute there.When the Government resolved that that institution should concentrate on pedagogic work({monitoring} postgraduate studies) with research being mainly focussed at the SteklovInstitute, my transfer to the latter became a natural consequence of that reorganization.Notes1. {It had been extremely dangerous to maintain ties with foreigners, and even with relativesliving abroad, hence this lengthy explanation. A related point is that Slutsky passed over insilence his work at the Conjuncture Institute, an institution totally compromised by the savagepersecution of its staff.}2. {Vannovsky as well as Bogolepov mentioned in the same connection by Chetverikov inhis essay on Slutsky (also translated here) are entered in the third edition of , vols 4 and 3 respectively, whose English edition is called GreatSoviet Encyclopedia. It is not easy, nor is it important, to specify which of them was actuallyresponsible for expelling the students.}3. {This unpublished composition is kept at the Vernadsky Library, Ukrainian Academy ofSciences.}6b. E.E. Slutsky. [Later] AutobiographyI was born on 7(19) April 1880 in the village Novoe of the former Mologsky District,Yaroslavl Province, to a family of an instructor of a teacher’s seminary. After graduating in1899 from a classical gymnasium in Zhitomir with a gold medal, I entered the MathematicalDepartment of the Physical and Mathematical Faculty at Kiev University. I was several timesexpelled for participating in the student movement and therefore only graduated in 1911, fromthe Law Faculty. Was awarded a gold medal for my composition on political economy, but,owing to my reputation of a Red Student, I was not left at the University for preparing myselffor professorship. I passed my examinations in 1917 at Moscow University and became Masterof Political Economy and Statistics.I wrote my student composition for which I was awarded a gold medal from the viewpointof a mathematician studying political economy and I continued working in this direction formany years. However, my intended {summary?} work remained unfinished since I lost interestin its essence (mathematical justification of economics) after the very subject of study (aneconomic system based on private property and competition) disappeared in our country with