Andrey Markov

This is an article about Russian mathematician Andrey Markov. For ice hockey player Andrei Markov, see Andrei Markov (hockey player).

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Andrey Andreyevich Markov (?????? ????????? ??????) (June 14, 1856 N.S. - July 20, 1922) was a Russian mathematician.

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Markov was born in Ryazan. He studied at St. Petersburg University in 1874 under the tutelage of Chebyshev. In 1886, he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. His research later became known as Markov chains.

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