Biography:Valeriy Oseledets

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Short description: Soviet and Russian mathematician (1940–2025)

Valeriy Iustinovich Oseledets (Russian: Валерий Иустинович Оселедец; 25 May 1940 – 13 March 2025) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Biography

Oseledets was born on 25 May 1940, in the Soviet Union.[1] He completed his undergraduate program in 1962 from Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he studied probability theory.[2] In 1965, he proved the Oseledets Theorem, named after himself. He received his Ph.D. under advisor Yakov Sinai in 1967.[3]

He was a faculty member and professor under the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.[4] His work primarily focused on statistical mechanics, stochastic analysis, dynamical systems, and probability. Oseledets died on 13 March 2025, at the age of 84.[5]

Awards

  • Kolmogorov Prize: he received this award in 2009.

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