The Most Famous
STATISTICIANS from Russia
This page contains a list of the greatest Russian Statisticians. The pantheon dataset contains 9 Statisticians, 1 of which were born in Russia. This makes Russia the birth place of the 3rd most number of Statisticians behind United Kingdom and United States.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Russian Statisticians of all time. This list of famous Russian Statisticians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821 - 1894)
With an HPI of 64.82, Pafnuty Chebyshev is the most famous Russian Statistician. His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Russian: Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв, IPA: [pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof]) (16 May [O.S. 4 May] 1821 – 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1894) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics. Chebyshev is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of probability, statistics, mechanics, and number theory. A number of important mathematical concepts are named after him, including the Chebyshev inequality (which can be used to prove the weak law of large numbers), the Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem, Chebyshev polynomials, Chebyshev linkage, and Chebyshev bias.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as statisticians born between 1821 and 1821. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased statisticians include Pafnuty Chebyshev.
