15 Facts About Akiva Yaglom

Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist.

Akiva Yaglom was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes.

From 1992 until his death, Akiva Yaglom worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research fellow in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Akiva Yaglom authored several popular books in mathematics and probability, some of them with his twin brother and mathematician Isaak Yaglom.

Akiva Yaglom was born on 6 March 1921 in Kharkiv, Ukraine to the family of an engineer.

The family moved to Moscow when the Akiva Yaglom brothers were five years old.

Akiva Yaglom joined Moscow State University in 1938, where he studied physics and mathematics.

Akiva Yaglom completed his fourth year of diploma at the Sverdlovsk State University and received the masters in science degree in 1942.

Akiva Yaglom's dissertation was "On the Statistical Reversibility of Brownian Motion".

Akiva Yaglom joined in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and worked at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Turbulence and worked there for more than 45 years.

Akiva Yaglom was a full professor in the Faculty of Probability Theory at the Mathematics and Mechanics Department of Moscow State University.

In 1992, Akiva Yaglom went to the United States and joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Akiva Yaglom died in Boston, Massachusetts on 13 December 2007.

Akiva Yaglom worked in many fields in applied mathematics and statistics, including the theory of random processes and the statistical theory of fluid mechanics.

In 1955, Akiva Yaglom received a Doctor of Science degree, the highest scientific degree in the Soviet Union, for his work on theories of stochastic processes and their application to turbulence theory.