Mark Semenovich Pinsker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mark Semenovich Pinsker

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1925

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2003

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mark Semenovich Pinsker (Russian: ???? ??????´??? ??´?????; April 24, 1925 – December 23, 2003) or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker (Russian: ???? ?????´??? ??´?????) was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics, and communication networks. Pinsker studied stochastic processes under A.
N.
Kolmogorov in the 1950s, and later worked at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His accomplishments included a classic paper on the entropy theory of dynamical systems which introduced the maximal partition with zero entropy, later known as Pinsker's partition.
His work in mathematical statistics was devoted mostly to the applications of information theory, including asymptotically sufficient statistics for parameter estimation and nonparametric estimation; Pinsker's inequality is named after him.
He also produced notable results in the theory of switching networks and complexity problems in coding theory. Pinsker received the IEEE Claude E.
Shannon Award in 1978, and the IEEE Richard W.
Hamming Medal in 1996.