Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Died when: 73 years 196 days (882 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: ?????´??? ????´??? ???????, IPA: [p?f'nut??j 'l?vov??t? t??b?'?of]) (16 May [O.S. 4 May] 1821 – 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1894) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
Chebyshev is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of probability, statistics, mechanics, and number theory.A number of important mathematical concepts are named after him, including the Chebyshev inequality (which can be used to prove the weak law of large numbers), the Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem, Chebyshev polynomials, Chebyshev linkage, and Chebyshev bias.
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