Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, born June 12, 1937 in Odessa, USSR) is one of the world's most prolific mathematicians. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he has made important contributions in a number of areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, … Wikipedia
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A year ago V. Bykovsky and his Vladivostok students have proved Arnold's old conjecture on the asymptotical Gauss-Kuz'min statistics of the distribution of the T elements of such periods. www.msri.org/communications/vmath/VMathVideos/VideoInfo/3...
Arnold continued to study as a postgraduate student at Moscow State University for his Candidate's Degree (equivalent to a Ph.D.) still with Kolmogorov as advisor. He was awarded the degree in 1961 by the Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow for hi www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Arnold.html
