Valery Ivanovich Glivenko (russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Гливе́нко, uk, Валерій Іванович Гливенко; 2 January 1897 (
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) / 21 December 1896 (
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) in
Kiev
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– 15 February 1940 in
Moscow
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) was a
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mathematician
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History
On ...
. He worked in
foundations of mathematics
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,
real analysis
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,
probability theory
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, and
mathematical statistics
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. He taught at Moscow Industrial Pedagogical Institute until his death at age 43.
Most of Glivenko's work was published in
French.
See also
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Glivenko's double-negation translation
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Glivenko's theorem (probability theory)
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Glivenko–Cantelli theorem
In the theory of probability, the Glivenko–Cantelli theorem (sometimes referred to as the Fundamental Theorem of Statistics), named after Valery Ivanovich Glivenko and Francesco Paolo Cantelli, determines the asymptotic behaviour of the empiric ...
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Glivenko–Stone theorem
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Mathematical logicians
1896 births
1940 deaths
Soviet logicians
Soviet mathematicians
Ukrainian mathematicians
20th-century Russian mathematicians
Probability theorists
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Moscow State University alumni
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