Andrey Markov

Andrey Andreyevich Markov
Andrey Andreyevich Markov
	Markov in 1886
Born	14 June 1856 N.S.; Ryazan, Russian Empire
Died	20 July 1922 (aged 66); Petrograd, Russian SFSR
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	St. Petersburg University
Known for	Markov chains ; Markov processes ; Stochastic processes
Children	Andrey Markov Jr.
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, specifically probability theory and statistics
Institutions	St. Petersburg University
Doctoral advisor	Pafnuty Chebyshev
Doctoral students	Abram Besicovitch; Nikolai Günther; Veniamin Kagan; V. I. Romanovsky; Jacob Tamarkin; J. V. Uspensky; Georgy Voronoy;

Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as the Markov chain. He was also a strong, close to master-level chess player.

Markov and his younger brother Vladimir Andreevich Markov (1871–1897) proved the Markov brothers' inequality. His son, another Andrey Andreyevich Markov (1903–1979), was also a notable mathematician, making contributions to constructive mathematics and recursive function theory.

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