Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (born 1924)

Eugene Dynkin

Russian mathematician (1924–2014)

Eugene Borisovich Dynkin was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.