TALK: The Revolutionary Impact of A. A. Markov Sr.’s Work on the Alternation of Letters in A.S. Pushkin's Poem "Eugene Onegin"
Vladimir Uspenskiy (Moscow State University)
Friday, April 23 / 4PM (refreshments served as 3.30) / FREE
Engineering, 1 Room 2124, UCSB

This lecture addresses path-breaking work of the Russian mathematician A. A. Markov Sr. ("Markov chains") in the area of local dependency of random variables. The samples Markov used for his research were taken from A. S. Pushkin's famous poem “Evgenij Onegin” and other central texts from classical Russian literature. Prof. Uspenskiy's lecture addresses the way in which Markov's work on probability may be relevant, not only for mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers, but also for scholars in the humanities. Vladimir Uspenskiy was born in Moscow in 1930. A student of the eminent Russian mathematician Kolmogorov, Uspenskiy has been on the faculty of Moscow State University since 1966, where he has been head of the Institute for Mathematical Logic and the Theory of Algorithms at Moscow State University since 1993. Professor Uspenskiy's main contributions are in the fields of Mathematical logic, theory of algorithms, theory of Kolmogorov complexity, and the foundations of mathematics and other areas.

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