Article ID: CBB000930719

Markov: Integrity Is Just as Important as Scientific Merits (2007)

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The Russian mathematician Markov was born 150 years ago. Many commentators have been describing his life and work but the extraordinary traits of his strong personality are much less known, especially beyond Russia. I describe this aspect of Markov's life and note that to a certain extent his character influenced his work.

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Authors & Contributors
Link, David
Nossum, Rolf
Birkeland, Lene
Barany, Michael J.
Bessudnova, Zoya A.
Dugatkin, Lee Alan
Journals
History of Science
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Historia Mathematica
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Basic Books
CreateSpace
Gebrüder Bornträger
Northern Illinois University Press
Oldenbourg
Sfera
Concepts
Biographies
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Transmission of ideas
Women in science
Personality of the scientist
People
Markov, Andrei Andreevich
Bogdanov, Alexander
Bourbaki, Nicolas, pseud.
Doeblin, Wolfgang
Euler, Leonhard
Fuhrich, Poldi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Russia
Germany
Soviet Union
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Institutions
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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