Anatoliy Skorokhod

Anatolii Volodymyrovych Skorokhod (1930 to 2011) was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked in probability theory, stochastic processes and mathematical statistics. Born in Nikopol and schooled in Marganets and Kovelin, he studied at Kiev University, where Boris Gnedenko and Iosif Gikhman shaped his research interests, and then carried out candidate research at Moscow State University under Eugene Dynkin, submitting his thesis on limit theorems for random processes in 1956. He received his doctorate in 1962, became head of the department of the theory of random processes at the Institute of Mathematics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1964, and built the Kiev school of probability theory. His work on limit theorems, stochastic differential equations and probability distributions in infinite dimensional spaces, and methods that bear his name, made him a central figure of the field. He co-authored a multivolume theory of random processes with Gikhman and moved to Michigan State University in 1993.