Yuri Prokhorov

Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov Юрий Васильевич Прохоров
Born	(1929-12-15) December 15, 1929 Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Awards	Lenin Prize (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975, 1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Probability theory
Institutions	Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov

Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (Template:Lang-ru; born 15 December 1929) is a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1949.

Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1966, a full member in 1972. He was a vice-president of the IMU. He received Lenin Prize in 1970, Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1979. He was also an editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

See also

• Lévy–Prokhorov metric
• Prokhorov's theorem

References

• Larry Shepp, "A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov", Statistical Science, Vol. 7, No. 1 (February, 1992), pp. 123–130.

External links

• Yuri Prokhorov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Prokhorov's Biography (in Russian)
• Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (in Russian)