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Eugene Dynkin

1924 - 2014

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Dynkin is the 720th most popular mathematician (up from 798th in 2019), the 1,642nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,004th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eugene Dynkin ranks 720 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacques Tits, Alexander Ostrowski, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Carl Neumann, Heinz Prüfer, and Fritz Noether. After him are John Cairncross, Wu Wenjun, David Cox, Pingala, Max Newman, and Paul Gordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Eugene Dynkin ranks 321. Before him are Oldřich Lipský, Roberto Mieres, Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Lloyd Alexander, and Valerio Bacigalupo. After him are Boris Markov, Pablo Birger, David Cox, Frank Havens, Roger Marche, and Sonny Stitt. Among people deceased in 2014, Eugene Dynkin ranks 296. Before him are Bel Kaufman, Mary F. Lyon, Arnoldo Foà, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, William H. Dana, and Aurelio Milani. After him are Åke Johansson, Marian Seldes, Carmelo Bossi, Régine Deforges, Jimmy T. Murakami, and James Shigeta.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Eugene Dynkin ranks 1,642 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Yuriy Voynov (1931), Alexander Mikulin (1895), Georg Schnéevoigt (1872), Leonid Kharitonov (1933), and Aulis Sallinen (1935). After him are Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Zainab Biisheva (1908), Mikhail Zharov (1899), Marfa Apraksina (1664), Natalya Seleznyova (1945), and Anatoli Firsov (1941).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Eugene Dynkin ranks 46. Before him are Dmitri Egorov (1869), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Svetlana Gannushkina (1942), Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), and Carl Neumann (1832). After him are Yuri Matiyasevich (1947), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), Maxim Kontsevich (1964), Dmitry Grave (1863), Vladimir Voevodsky (1966), and Sergey Nikolsky (1905).

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