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| Born | Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik January 8, 1915 |
| Died | June 30, 1972 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg University Steklov Institute |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Saint Petersburg University |
Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russian : Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ли́нник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.
Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to Saint Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovsky, and later worked at that university and the Steklov Institute. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as was his father, Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik. He was awarded both Stalin and Lenin Prizes. He died in Leningrad. [1]
Linnik obtained numerous results concerning infinitely divisible distributions. [4] In particular, he proved the following generalisation of Cramér's theorem: any divisor of a convolution of Gaussian and Poisson random variables is also a convolution of Gaussian and Poisson.
He has also coauthored the book Linnik & Ostrovskii (1977) on the arithmetics of infinitely divisible distributions.
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