S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan: Quick Facts


Facts

Born January 2, 1940 (age 86) • Chennai • India
Awards And Honors Abel Prize (2007)
Subjects Of Study probability • probability theory • random walk

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French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, 1966.
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
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Abraham de Moivre
French mathematician
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Andrey Andreyevich Markov
Russian mathematician
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Richard von Mises
American mathematician
Cardano, Girolamo
Girolamo Cardano
Italian physician and mathematician
Blackwell, David
David Blackwell
American statistician and mathematician
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Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Quetelet, Adolphe
Adolphe Quetelet
Belgian astronomer, sociologist, and statistician
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Joseph Bertrand
French mathematician and educator
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist
Understand how Bayes's theorem can make educated mathematical guesses when there is not much to go on
Thomas Bayes
English theologian and mathematician
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Paul Lévy
French mathematician
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian American mathematician
John Nash
John Nash
American mathematician
Peter Lax
Peter Lax
Hungarian-born American mathematician