Person: Dynkin, Eugene Borisovich

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Eugene B Dynkin was a Russian-born American mathematician who worked in the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups and algebras, and Markov processes. Dynkin diagrams are named after him.

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Born 11 May 1924, Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia). Died 14 November 2014, Ithaca, New York, USA.

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Group Theory, Origin Russia


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