Biography:Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov

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Short description: Soviet economist and mathematician
Vasily S. Nemchinov
Born
Grabovo, Penzenskaya Guberniya, Imperial Russia
Died5 November 1964(1964-11-05) (aged 70)
NationalityRussian
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics and Mathematics
InstitutionsCentral Economic Mathematical Institute

Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov (Russian: Василий Cергеевич Немчинов (2 January 1894 – 5 November 1964) was a Soviet economist and mathematician. Nemchinov is credited with introducing mathematical methods into Soviet economics, thus creating a scientific basis for central planning.

Biography

Nemchinov was born in Grabovo, a village about 20 km north of Penza in what was then Penzenskaya Guberniya of Imperial Russia. He attended secondary school in Chelyabinsk until 1913. He then studied at the economics department of the Moscow Institute of Commerce (Russian: Московский коммерческий институт). After graduation in 1917 he began to work as an economist and statistician for the local government in the Chelyabinsk district.

Works

  • "On the Statistical Study of Rural Class Stratification", 1926, Bulleting of Urals Regional Statistical Admin.
  • "Experience from the Classification of Peasant Households", Vestnik statistiki.
  • The Use of Mathematics in Economics, 3 volumes, 1959-65.
  • Methods and Models of Mathematical Economics, 1967-9.
  • Selected Works, 1967-9.

Honors

  • Stalin Prize, (1946)
  • Honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society, (1961)
  • Lenin Prize, (1965, posthumously)

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