Andrey Markov

Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Марков) (June 14, 1856 N.S. – July 20, 1922) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His research later became known as Markov chains. He and his younger brother Vladimir Andreevich Markov (1871-1897) proved Markov brothers' inequality. His son, another Andrey Andreevich Markov (1903-1979), was also a notable mathematician, making c... more

Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Марков) (June 14, 1856 N.S. – July 20, 1922) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His research later became known as Markov chains. He and his younger brother Vladimir Andreevich Markov (1871-1897) proved Markov brothers' inequality. His son, another Andrey Andreevich Markov (1903-1979), was also a notable mathematician, making contributions on constructive mathematics and recursive function theory. Andrey Andreevich Markov was born in Ryazan as the son of the secretary of the public forest management of Ryazan, Andrey Grigorevich Markov, and his first wife Nadezhda Petrovna Markova. In the beginning of the 1860s Andrey Grigorevich moved to St Petersburg to become an asset manager of the princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Valvatyeva. In 1866 Andrey Andreevich’s school life began with his entrance into Saint Petersburg’s fifth grammar school. Already during his school... less