Boris Levit

Boris Ya. Levit is a professor of statistics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Boris Ya. Levit
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
Russian Academy of Science
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsQueen's University
Doctoral advisorRafail Khasminskii

Career

Levit obtained his M.Sc. in mathematics from Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in statistics from Russian Academy of Science in 1975 (his advisor was Rafail Khasminskii).[1] While at Moscow State University, he was influenced by many famous mathematicians of the era, including Andrei Kolmogorov.

Before undertaking a professorship at Queen's University, Levit spent several years lecturing in the United States. He has also spent nearly ten years in the Netherlands, as a professor of statistics at the University of Utrecht.

Well-known internationally, Levit has made outstanding contributions to the field of statistics. His research has included statistical problems involving infinitely many parameters, as well as nonparametric statistics. In the 1980s, he discovered how to characterize high order approximation problems using the properties of corresponding elliptic differential operators. Levit was awarded a D.Sc. by Vilnius University for his use of differential geometry and partial differential equations in statistical research.

gollark: "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz" and "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" are two good not-quite-perfect pangrams.
gollark: There are many.
gollark: It's exotically spelled, so yes.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram
gollark: Well, in that case, it's this sort of thing: > The only perfect pangrams of the English alphabet that are known either use abbreviations, such as "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx", Roman numerals such as “Fjord Nymphs XV beg a quick waltz”, or use words so obscure that the phrase is hard to understand, such as "Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz"

References
  1. "Boris Ya. Levit at the Mathematics Genealogy Project". 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-11.



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