Mathematician:Andrey Andreyevich Markov

Alternatively rendered Andrei Andreyevich Markov (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков).

Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes.

Elder brother of Vladimir Andreyevich Markov, and father of Andrey Andreyevich Markov Jr.

Nationality
Russian

History

 * Born: 14 June 1856, Ryazan, Russia
 * 1866: Entered Saint Petersburg's fifth grammar school
 * 1874: Began at the physico-mathematical faculty of St Petersburg University
 * 1877: Awarded the gold medal for solving $\left({1+x^2}\right) \frac {dy}{dx} = n \left({1+y^2}\right)$
 * 1886: Appointed extraordinary professor, elected adjunct to the Academy of Sciences
 * 1890: After death of Viktor Bunyakovsky, became extraordinary member of the academy
 * 1896: Elected ordinary member of the academy as the successor of Chebyshev
 * 1905: Appointed merited professor.
 * 1908: Rejected for political reasons from further teaching at Saint Petersburg University
 * 1912: Requested (and received) excommunication from the Russian Orthodox Church in protest to Leo Tolstoy's excommunication
 * 1913: Elected by the Council of Saint Petersburg as an honorary member of the university, but was not affirmed by Minister of Education
 * 1917: After February revolution, his 1913 election was confirmed
 * Died: 20 July 1922, Petrograd (now St Petersburg), Russia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Markov Brothers' Inequality (don't laugh) (with Vladimir Andreyevich Markov)
 * Markov Chain
 * Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
 * Gauss-Markov Theorem (with Carl Friedrich Gauss)
 * Gauss-Markov Process (with Carl Friedrich Gauss)
 * Hidden Markov Model
 * Markov Information Source
 * Markov Number, Markov Diophantine Equation, Markov Triple
 * Markov Property
 * Markov's Inequality
 * Markov Process
 * Markov Blanket
 * Markov Condition
 * Causal Markov Condition
 * Markov Network
 * Markov Decision Process
 * Chebyshev-Markov-Stieltjes Inequalities (with Pafnuty Chebyshev and Thomas Stieltjes)
 * Markov Algorithm
 * Markov-Gibbs Properties

Books and Papers

 * 1877: About Integration of Differential Equations by Continuous Fractions with an Application to the Equation $\left({1+x^2}\right) \frac {dy}{dx} = n \left({1+y^2}\right)$
 * April 1880: About Binary Quadratic Forms with Positive Determinant (masters thesis)
 * 1890: On a question by D.I. Mendeleev
 * 1884: About Some Applications of Algebraic Continuous Fractions (doctoral thesis)
 * 1906: Распространение закона больших чисел на величины, зависящие друг от друга