Eugene Dynkin

Eugene Dynkin
Eugene Dynkin
	Eugene Dynkin at home in 2003. Photo courtesy of the Dynkin Collection.
Born	Eugene Borisovich Dynkin; 11 May 1924; Leningrad, Soviet Union
Died	14 November 2014 (aged 90); Ithaca, New York, United States
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Moscow University
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1993)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow University; Central Economic Mathematical Institute; Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral students	Nicolai V. Krylov; Igor Girsanov; Fridrikh Karpelevich; Stanislav Molchanov; Anatoliy Skorokhod; Ernest Vinberg

Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (Russian: Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.

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