What is Eugene Dynkin?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Eugene Dynkin | image = Eugene Dynkin.jpg | alt = | caption = Dynkin in 1976 |birth_name=Eugene Borisovich Dynkin | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1924|05|11}} | birth_place = [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], [[Soviet Union]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|14|1924|05|11|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Ithaca]], [[New York]], [[United States]] | citizenship = United States | field = [[Mathematics]] | work_institutions = [[Moscow University]]<br />[[Central Economic Mathematical Institute]]<br />[[Cornell University]] | alma_mater = [[Moscow University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Andrey Kolmogorov]] | doctoral_students =[[Nicolai V. Krylov]]<br />[[Igor Girsanov]]<br />[[Fridrikh Karpelevich]]<br />[[Anatoliy Skorokhod]]<br />[[Ernest Vinberg]]<br />[http://www.math.cornell.edu/~ebd/edst.html Complete List] | prizes = [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] (1993) }} '''Eugene Borisovich Dynkin''' ({{lang-ru|Евге́ний Бори́сович Ды́нкин}}; May 11, 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a [[USSR|Soviet]]-[[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He worked most in [[probability]] and [[algebra]]. Dynkin especially worked in [[Semisimple Lie group|semisimple]] [[Lie group]]s, [[Lie algebra]]s, and [[Markov process]]es. The [[Dynkin diagram]], the [[Dynkin system]], and [[Dynkin's lemma]] are named for him. Before his death, Dynkin was a mathematician at [[Cornell University]]. Dynkin died at his home in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York]], aged 90.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mccme.ru/head/news/dynkin.htm|title=Евгений Борисович Дынкин|publisher=Moscow Mathematical Center of Continuous Education|language=Russian|accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dynkin, Eugene}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Cornell University faculty]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Cat