Andrey Markov

Andrey Markov (birth name Andrey Andreevich Markov) was a mathematician and statistician born on June 2, 1856, in Ryazan. He held citizenship in both the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic . Markov was educated at Saint Petersburg State University, where he was a doctoral student of Pafnuty Chebyshev.

Throughout his career, Markov supervised numerous doctoral students, including Ivan Vinogradov, Veniamin Kagan, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Alexander Friedmann, J. V. Uspensky, Georgy Voronoy, Jacob Tamarkin, and Nikolai Günther. Andrey Markov passed away on July 20, 1922, in Saint Petersburg.