Mathematician:Eugene Borisovich Dynkin

Mathematician

Russian mathematician whose work is in probability and algebra.

Nationality

Russian

History

• Born: 11 May 1924 in Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia)
• Died: 14 November 2014

Theorems and Definitions

• Affine Dynkin Diagram
• Coxeter-Dynkin Diagram (with Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter)
• Dynkin Diagram (also known as a Dynkin Graph)
• Dynkin Index

• Doob-Dynkin Lemma (with Joseph Leo Doob)
• Dynkin's Formula
• Dynkin System

Results named for Eugene Borisovich Dynkin can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Eugene Borisovich Dynkin can be found here.

Publications

• 1947: Structure of semisimple Lie algebras
• 1952: Semisimple subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras
• 1959: Theory of Markov Processes (translation into English by D.E. Brown, 1961)
• 1963: Markov Processes

Also known as

In Russian: Евге́ний Бори́сович Ды́нкин

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Eugene Borisovich Dynkin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive