Taivo Arak
Taivo Arak was an Estonian mathematician, specializing in probability theory.Biography
In 1969 he graduated from Leningrad State University. There he received in 1972 his Russian candidate degree under I. A. Ibragimov.
In 1983 Arak defended his dissertation for his Russian doctorate.
From 1972 to 1981 he worked at the Tallinn University of Technology. From 1981 he worked at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. In 1986 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California.
Most of his research dealt with the theory of probability.Awards
- - for the series of papers "Равномерные предельные теоремы для сумм независимых случайных величин".
Selected publications
- with Andrei Yuryevich Zaitsev:
- with Donatas Surgailis:
- with D. Surgailis:
- with Peter Clifford and D. Surgailis:
