Aleksandr Alekseevich Borovkov (Александр Алексеевич Боровков; born 6 March 1931, in

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(in Russian)) is a Russian mathematician. Borovkov received his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) in 1959 under

Andrey Kolmogorov Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...

at Moscow State University and his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree) in 1963. He is an academician at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the

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and a professor at the

Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University is a public research university located in Novosibirsk, Russia. The university was founded in 1958, on the principles of integration of education and science, early involvement of students with research activities an ...

. His research deals with probability theory, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1966 in

and in 1978 in

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(Rate of convergence and large deviations in invariance principle). He was elected in 1966 a corresponding member and in 1990 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1979 he received the

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

Selected publications

*Stochastic processes in queueing theory. Springer, 1976 *Asymptotic methods in queuing theory. Wiley, 1984.
Probability Theory
New York: Gordon & Breach, 1998 *Mathematical Statistics. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1998 *Ergodicity and stability of stochastic processes. New York: Wiley, 1998. *with A. A. Mogulskii: Large deviations and testing statistical hypothesis, Siber. Adv. Math., 1992, 1993 *with Konstantin A. Borovkov
Asymptotic analysis of random walks
Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 118. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

References

External links

mathnet.ru
{{DEFAULTSORT:Borovkov, Aleksandr 1931 births Living people 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Recipients of the USSR State Prize Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences