Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov (10 August 1917 – 21 June 1947) was a Russian theoretical physicist known for his work on the foundations of statistical physics. He showed that a sufficient condition for a dynamical system to relax to equilibrium is for it to be mixing.
Krylov was born in Ustyuzhna (now in Vologda Oblast of Russia). He graduated from Leningrad University with a degree in physics. He then studied with Fock and wrote a thesis on the foundations of statistical mechanics titled Mixing processes in phase space.
Krylov died after a prolonged illness.
[edit] References
- N. S. Krylov (1979). Works on the foundations of statistical physics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08227-8.
 |
This article about a Russian mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This Russian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
