The life, work, and legacy of P. L. Chebyshev

N. H. Bingham

Teoriâ veroâtnostej i ee primeneniâ, Tome 66 (2021) no. 4, pp. 636-656

Résumé

We survey briefly the life and work of P. L. Chebyshev and his ongoing influence. We discuss his contributions to probability, number theory, and mechanics; his pupils and mathematical descendants; and his role as the founding father of Russian mathematics in general and of the Russian school of probability in particular.

Détail

Keywords: distribution of prime numbers, Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, Chebyshev polynomials, the moment problem.
Mots-clés : Chebyshev alternant

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