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Name: Pafunty Lvovich Chebyshev
Birth Date: 1821
Death Date: 1894
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: probabilist and analyst

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Biography of Pafunty Lvovich Chebyshev
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Chebyshev has given his name to results in probabilityand analysis, one of the first Russian mathematicians by birth to be so recognized. His work reflected a great deal of mathematical sophistication, making connections between different areas and...


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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev Summary
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1821-1894 Russian mathematician whose best known papers deal with prime numbers. Appointed professor of mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg in 1847, Chebyshev also studied problems involving probability theory, quadratic forms, orthogonal...
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Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв) (May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1821 – December 8 [O.S. November 26] 1894)[1] was a Russian mathematician. His name is transliterated variously as Chebychev, Chebyshov,...


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The American Statistician
Chebyshev inequalities for unimodal distributions.
02/01/1997: 5,522 words, approx. 18 pages
Let g be an even function on R that is nondecreasing on [0, [infinity]), and let k be a positive constant. For random variables X that are unimodal with mode 0, and for random variables X that are unimodal with an unspecified mode, we...
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The American Statistician
Calculation of Hypergeometric Probabilities Using Chebyshev Polynomials.
05/01/2000: 2,337 words, approx. 8 pages
Using Chebyshev polynomials we generate an algorithm for the efficient calculation of hypergeometric probabilities. For a fixed population size N and fixed sample size n, such calculations simultaneously produce distributions for all possible values of the population number of "successes" M. KEY WORDS:...
 


 

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