LINNIK 224 



On the fundamental possibility of lessening the influence of 



the atmosphere on the image of a star. Optika i Spektro- 



scopy, 1957, _3^, #4. 



Statistically similar zones of a linear type. Doklady Akad. 



Nauk S.S.S.R. 144, #5, 974-76 (1962). 



Theory of statistical similar zones. Doklady Akad. Nauk 



S.S.S.R. 146, #2, 300-03 (1962). 



and V. F. Skubenko. Asymptote of whole number third order 



matrices. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 146, #5, 1007-08 



(1962). 

 Biography: 



V. P. Linnik. Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk, 1939, 21, #2. 



Academician Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik. Vestnik Akad. 



Nauk S.S.S.R., 1939, #2-3. 

 Office: Department of Physics 



Leningrad University 

 Leningrad, USSR 



LINNIK, YURII VLADIMIROVICH (Mathematician) 



Yu. V. Linnik was born January 8, 1915. He graduated from 

 Leningrad University in 1938 and did postgraduate work there 

 in 1940, in which year he was granted the Doctor of Physical - 

 Mathematical Sciences degree. Since 1940, he has been em- 

 ployed at the Leningrad branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences Mathematics Institute, and has been a professor at 

 Leningrad University since 1944. In 1947 he was awarded a 

 Stalin Prize. He was elected, in 1953, a Corresponding Member 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



In the theory of numbers, Linnik was occupied with the 

 presentation of numbers in quadratic form and gave an esti- 

 mation of the smallest prime number in an arithmetical pro- 

 gression with a large difference. He also worked in the calcu- 

 lus of probability, on heterogeneous Markov chains and on 

 mathematical statistics. 

 Bibliography: 



Asymptotic distribution of whole points on a sphere. Dok- 

 lady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1954, 96, #5. 

 Asymptotic distribution of reduced binary forms in con- 

 nection with the geometry of Lobachevskii. I-III. Vestnik of 

 Leningrad University, 1955, #2, 3-23; #5, 3-32; #8, 15-28. 

 Office: Leningrad Section 



Mathematical Institute of USSR Academy of Sciences 

 Nab. Fontanki, 25 

 Leningrad D-11, USSR 



