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Roland Dobrushin

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Roland Dobrushin · Science & Medicine

What

Probability; rigorous statistical mechanics and Gibbs measures

When

1929, Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) — 1995, Moscow, Russia

Where

Russia

Biography

Roland Dobrushin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Probability; rigorous statistical mechanics and Gibbs measures

How & why

Dobrushin was a Russian Jewish mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory and rigorous statistical mechanics, best known for the Dobrushin–Lanford–Ruelle equations defining Gibbs measures. His work underpins the modern theory of phase transitions. He was Jewish, orphaned young in the Soviet Union.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Probability; rigorous statistical mechanics and Gibbs measures

1929

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics