Andrey Markov

Andrey Markov

male, deceased (1922)
constructive mathematics, Recursive Function, New Style, markovchain, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian…Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov
Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov (June 14, 1856 N.S. – July 20, 1922) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of st...
Igor Pak

Igor Pak

male, 38 years old
Young tableau, From Moscow, combinatorist, Erdős number 2, Russian-American, MIT Mathematics Department…markovchain
Igor Pak is an associate professor of mathematics at MIT, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He is best known for his bijective...

Jeff Harrison

male
Cincinnati Country Day School, poet, English-language poet, markovchain, American, accuracy
Jeff Harrison is an American poet whose poems "Postmortem Series" and "Accuracy" are apparently randomly generated, with the help of Markov chains....
Abraham Lempel

Abraham Lempel

male
Israeli, LZ78, LZ77, lossless, LZ77 and LZ78, compression algorithm…markovchain
Abraham Lempel is a computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Originally from Poland,...
Elliott Waters Montroll

Elliott Waters Montroll

male, deceased (1983)
Yale University, ferromagnet, Courant Institut, Office of Naval Research, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, markovchain
Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - December 3, 1983 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA) was an American scientist...
Harlan Mills

Harlan Mills

male, deceased (1996)
Edsger Dijkstra, software engineering, IBM employee, automata theory, IBM, florida institute of technology…markovchain
Harlan D. Mills was Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of...