biography
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Markov, Andrey Andreyevich
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pronunciation:
[mah(r)kof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1922)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Ryazan, W Russia. He studied at St Petersburg, where he became professor (1893–1905), before going into self-imposed exile in the town of Zaraisk. A student of Pafnuty Chebyshev, he worked on number theory and probability theory. His name is best known for the concept of the Markov chain, a series of events in which the probability of a given event occurring depends only on the immediately previous event. This has since found many applications in physics, biology, and linguistics. |
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