16 Facts About Andrey Markov

Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes.

Andrey Markov was a strong, close to master-level, chess player.

Markov and his younger brother Vladimir Andreyevich Markov proved the Markov brothers' inequality.

Andrey Markov's son, another Andrey Andreyevich Markov, was a notable mathematician, making contributions to constructive mathematics and recursive function theory.

Andrey Markov completed his studies at the university and was later asked if he would like to stay and have a career as a mathematician.

Andrey Markov later taught at high schools and continued his own mathematical studies.

Andrey Markov figured out that he could use chains to model the alliteration of vowels and consonants in Russian literature.

Andrey Markov contributed to many other mathematical aspects in his time.

In 1877, Andrey Markov was awarded a gold medal for his outstanding solution of the problem.

One year after the defense of his doctoral thesis, Andrey Markov was appointed extraordinary professor and in the same year he was elected adjunct to the Academy of Sciences.

In 1890, after the death of Viktor Bunyakovsky, Andrey Markov became an extraordinary member of the academy.

In 1896, Andrey Markov was elected an ordinary member of the academy as the successor of Chebyshev.

Andrey Markov refused to accept this decree, and he wrote an explanation in which he declined to be an "agent of the governance".

Andrey Markov was removed from further teaching duties at St Petersburg University, and hence he decided to retire from the university.

Andrey Markov was among them, but his election was not affirmed by the minister of education.

Andrey Markov then resumed his teaching activities and lectured on probability theory and the calculus of differences until his death in 1922.