Eugene Dynkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eugene Dynkin

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-May-1924

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 14-Nov-2014

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (Russian: ????´??? ????´????? ??´????; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician.
He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes.
The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.