Sergi Bernstein

Sergi Natanovich Bernstein

Born: 5 March 1880 in Odessa, Ukraine
Died: 26 Oct 1968 in Moscow, USSR

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Sergi Bernstein received his doctorate in Paris, then taught at Khrakov University for 25 years. His most important work was in the theory of probability.

He generalised Lyapunov's conditions for the central limit theorem and worked on, what are today called, Bernstein polynomials and Bernstein's inequality. He attempted an axiomatisation of probability theory.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. N I Akhiezer, Academician S N Berstein and his research on the constructive theory of functions (Kharkov, 1955). 
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