Early influences on probability and statistics in the Russian empire (Q1272580): Difference between revisions

The author describes early Russian works on probability (but does not mention Davidov) and examines the background of Chebyshev's pertinent contributions and his ties with France (mostly through Bienaymé). Only from among Western sources, his references do not include the piece on Chebyshev from the Dict. Sci. Biogr. 3 (1971) or the English translation of Mathematics of the 19th century. Mathematical logic, algebra, number theory, probability theory. Transl. from the Russian. Basel etc.: Birkhäuser (1992; Zbl 0749.01016) by \textit{A. N. Kolmogorov} (ed.) and \textit{A. P. Youshkevich} (ed.). Then, translations of two relevant papers of Bernstein have just appeared [\textit{S. N. Bernstein} et al., ``From Markov to Kolmogorov''. Egelsbach (1998)]. The author states that lectures in probability began ``in some (Russian) universities'' before 1837. I know only one such case: Bartels, in Dorpat (Tartu), in 1836.