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Andrey Markov

1856 - 1922

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Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem—to sequences of dependent random variables, laying the groundwork for what would become known as Markov chains. To illustrate his methods, he analyzed the distribution of vowels and consonants in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, treating letters purely as abstract categories and stripping away any poetic or semantic content. He was also a strong, close to master-level, chess player. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrey Markov is the 153rd most popular mathematician (down from 148th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Russia (up from 319th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Andrey Markov is most famous for the Markov chain, which is a mathematical model of a stochastic process.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Andrey Markov ranks 153 out of 1,004. Before him are Lars Ahlfors, Joseph Liouville, John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, Vincenzo Viviani, and Marian Rejewski. After him are Colin Maclaurin, Michel Rolle, Oliver Heaviside, Aloysius Lilius, Autolycus of Pitane, and Aleksandr Lyapunov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Andrey Markov ranks 26. Before him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak, L. Frank Baum, Frank B. Kellogg, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. After him are Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, H. Rider Haggard, John Singer Sargent, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Jean Moréas, and Louis Franchet d'Espèrey. Among people deceased in 1922, Andrey Markov ranks 20. Before him are Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ernest Solvay, Georges Sorel, Vittorio Monti, and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton. After him are Paul Deschanel, Michael Collins, Léon Bonnat, Rudolf Kjellén, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, and Nellie Bly.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Markov ranks 296 out of 3,761. Before him are Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), and Varlam Shalamov (1907). After him are Georgy Chicherin (1872), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Otto Nicolai (1810), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Tamara Karsavina (1885), and Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Andrey Markov ranks 10. Before him are Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Christian Goldbach (1690), Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), and Alexander Friedmann (1888). After him are Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Yakov Sinai (1935), and Sergei Novikov (1938).

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