Mathematician:Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik

Mathematician
Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Nationality
Ukrainian / Soviet / Russian

History

 * Born: 8 January 1915 in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire)
 * Died: 30 June 1972 in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Russia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Linnik's Theorem
 * Linnik Ergodic Method
 * Linnik Zone

Publications

 * 1940: Representation of Big Numbers by Positive Ternary Quadratic Forms (Ph.D. thesis)


 * 1961: Method of least squares and principles of the theory of observations
 * 1968: Ergodic properties of algebraic fields
 * 1971: Independent and stationary sequences of random variables
 * 1977: Decomposition of random variables and vectors (with )

Also known as
In Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ли́нник

His first name can be transliterated Uri, providing the initial U, under which some of his work appears.