Eugene B. Dynkin papers

Collection — Container: electronic records

Identifier: 14-19-4151

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers documenting the work, writings, and teachings of Dynkin. Collection includes digitized copies of audio and video interviews with mathematicians conducted by Eugene Dynkin, as well as biographical information and photos of these prominent mathematicians.

Dates

1950-2014.

Creator

Dynkin, E. B. (Evgeniĭ Borisovich), 1924-2014. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor at Cornell University from 1977-2014. Lie groups were the main subject of Dynkin's earlier research. "Dynkin's Diagrams" are widely used by mathematicians and physicists. After 1954, probability theory became the central field of his interests. Principal efforts were devoted to Markov processes and their connections with potential theory and partial differential equations.

Extent

36.1 cubic feet. (36.1 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Author Files

Series II. Publications by Eugene B. Dynkin

Series III. Research Material and Notes

Series IV. Talks and Conferences

Series V. Course Material

Series VI. The Situation in Soviet Mathematics

Series VII. General Documents

Series VIII. Personal and Biographical Material

Series IX. Audio/Visual material

Series X. Digital files

RELATED MATERIALS

Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews digital collection is online. This collection consists of digitized interviews from the media in this collection. This collection is in the process of being updated to a newer delivery platform. Material from the collection can still be utilized in several ways. The original site, http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu , released in 2011, has been archived and is made available via the WayBack Machine Archive-It service. (NOTE: not all resources or navigation are functional on this archived version of the Dynkin website.) The archived site includes the mathematician biographical information as well as the photographs from the collection. The audio and video content from the collection is now available on the Cornell Library MediaSpace site. Metadata associated with the interviews and transcripts, when available, remains on the archived site during this transition.

Physical Description

Correspondence, photographs,

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: June 2018
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, June 2018
Date modified:: Fredrika Loew, September 2018