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Not to be confused with Yuri Prokhorov (luger).

Yuri Prokhorov
Born	Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (1929-12-15)15 December 1929 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	16 July 2013(2013-07-16) (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Awards	Lenin Prize (1970) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1975, 1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Probability theory
Institutions	Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (Russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Про́хоров; 15 December 1929 – 16 July 2013) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1956.

Prokhorov became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1966, a full member in 1972. He was a vice-president of the IMU. He received Lenin Prize in 1970, Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1979. He was also an editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

See also

• Lévy–Prokhorov metric
• Prokhorov's theorem

References

• Larry Shepp, "A Conversation with Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov", Statistical Science, Vol. 7, No. 1 (February, 1992), pp. 123–130.

External links

• Yuri Prokhorov — scientific works on the website Math-Net.Ru
• Yuriĭ Vasilʹevich Prokhorov — scientific works in MathSciNet
• Yuri Prokhorov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Prokhorov's Biography (in Russian)
• Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (in Russian)
• Obituaries: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov