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Pafnuty Chebyshev

1821 - 1894

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pafnuty Chebyshev has received more than 505,796 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Pafnuty Chebyshev is the 2nd most popular statistician (up from 3rd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Russia (down from 196th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Statistician.

Pańuty Chebyshev is most famous for the Chebyshev inequality, which states that for any function f(x) that is bounded above and below, there is a constant ε such that for all x, |f(x) - L| < ε, where L is the largest value of f(x).

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Among STATISTICIANS

Among statisticians, Pafnuty Chebyshev ranks 2 out of 9. Before him are Francis Galton. After him are Karl Pearson, Thomas Bayes, Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, C. R. Rao, Joseph Kruskal, and Gertrude Mary Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Pafnuty Chebyshev ranks 7. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Baudelaire, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, and Richard Francis Burton. After him are August Schleicher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, Lola Montez, Louis Vuitton, and Auguste Mariette. Among people deceased in 1894, Pafnuty Chebyshev ranks 12. Before him are Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, and Francis II of the Two Sicilies. After him are Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, Hans von Bülow, Leconte de Lisle, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Theodor Billroth.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pafnuty Chebyshev ranks 212 out of 3,262. Before him are Öz Beg Khan (1282), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Roman Abramovich (1966), Alexander Herzen (1812), and The French Angel (1903). After him are Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Ivan Krylov (1769), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946).

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Among STATISTICIANS In Russia

Among statisticians born in Russia, Pafnuty Chebyshev ranks 1. 

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