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Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Линник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Russian mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics, especially the . Linnik was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University and later worked at the university and Steklov Institute. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as was his father, Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik. He was awarded both State and Lenin Prizes. He died in St Petersburg.
[edit] Work in Number theory
[edit] Work in Probability Theory and Statistics
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- I.A.Ibragimov, Yu.V.Linnik, Independent and stationary sequences of random variables, Edited by JFC, Wolters-Noordhoff Series of Monographs and Textbooks on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1971
- Yu.V.Linnik, Method of Least Squares, Fizmatgiz, Moscow, 1962
- Yu.V.Linnik, I.V.Ostrovskii, Decomposition of random variables and vectors, Translated from the Russian. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Vol. 48. American Mathematical Society, Providence, R. I., 1977. ix+380 pp.
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