Eugen Slutsky

Evgeny Slutsky, usually called Eugen Slutsky in the West, was a Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist who lived from 1880 to 1948. He studied at Kiev University, was expelled for taking part in student protests, spent several years at the Technical University of Munich and finally graduated from Kiev in 1911 with a gold medal. He taught at the Kiev Institute of Commerce, worked for the Central Statistical Board in Moscow and later joined the Mathematical Institute of the University of Moscow. His name is attached to the Slutsky equation of consumer theory, which separates the substitution effect from the income effect of a price change, to the Slutsky-Yule effect on apparent cycles produced by random causes, and to Slutsky's theorem in probability. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna in 1928.