The worldwide influence of the work of B. V. Gnedenko

N. H. Bingham

Teoriâ veroâtnostej i ee primeneniâ, Tome 58 (2013) no. 1, pp. 27-36

Résumé

We discuss the life and work of B. V. Gnedenko, with particular reference to his pioneering work on extreme-value theory and, with Kolmogorov and others, limit theorems.

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