Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov (Ильдар Абдулович Ибрагимов, born 15 July 1932,

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Biography

Ibragimov is the son of a father who was an engineer with Bashkir ancestry and a mother who was a physician from a

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

family with origins in Kazan. Ildar Ibragimov studied at

Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

, where he graduated in mathematics in 1956. He received in 1960 his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) under

Yuri Linnik 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 B ...

and in 1967 his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree). In 1969 he became a professor of probability at Leningrad State University. He is a senior scientist and director of the laboratory of statistical methods at the

Steklov Institute Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute (russian: Математический институт имени В.А.Стеклова) is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part o ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, a position he has held there since 1972 as the successor to Yuri Linnik. Ibragimov was elected in 1990 a corresponding member and in 1997 a full member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. In 1970 he received the Lenin Prize. In 1989 he was the Wald Lecturer of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

. In 1966 in Moscow he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM. His doctoral students include Taivo Arak and

Boris Tsirelson Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson (May 4, 1950 – January 21, 2020) ( he, בוריס סמיונוביץ' צירלסון, russian: Борис Семёнович Цирельсон) was a Russian–Israeli mathematician and Professor of Mathematics ...

Selected publications

*with Linnik: ''Independent and stationary sequences of random variables'', Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff 1971 *with Y. A. Rozanov: ''Gaussian Random Processes'', Springer Verlag 1978 *with R. Z. Hasminskii: ''Statistical estimation, asymptotic theory'', Springer Verlag 1981 *as editor with A. Yu. Zaitzev: ''Probability theory and mathematical statistics'', Gordon and Breach 1996 *as editor with N. Balakrishnan, V. B. Nevzorov: ''Asymptotic methods in probability and statistics with applications'', Birkhäuser 2001

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Russian biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibragimov, Ildar Abdulovitch 20th-century Russian mathematicians 21st-century Russian mathematicians Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Lenin Prize 1932 births Living people Saint Petersburg State University alumni Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University