Mathematician:Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov

Mathematician

Russian mathematician noted for his work in various fields including probability theory and statistics.

Not to be confused with Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov.

Nationality

Russian

History

• Born: 17 October 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire
• Died: 2 June 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union

Theorems and Definitions

• Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (with Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov)
• Cramér-von Mises-Smirnov Criterion (with Harald Cramér and Richard Edler von Mises)

Results named for Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov can be found here.

Publications

• 1938: Об аппроксимации законов распределения случайных величин ("On approximation of the distribution laws of random variables")
• 1949: Limit distributions for the terms of a variational series
• 1959: Short Course of Mathematical Statistics for Technical Applications (with I.V. Dunin-Barkovskii)
• 1960: Tables of the normal integrals of probabilities, normal densities and normalized derivatives

Also known as

In Russian: Николай Васильевич Смирнов.