Vsevolod Romanovsky

Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky (4 December 1879 to 6 December 1954) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who worked in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and founded the Tashkent school of mathematics. In 1906 he received his doctoral degree from Saint Petersburg University under Andrey Markov. He later taught at the Imperial University of Warsaw, which was moved to Rostov-on-Don during the First World War, and from 1918 he was a professor of probability and mathematical statistics in Tashkent, at what is now the National University of Uzbekistan. He gained an international reputation for his work in mathematical statistics and probability theory, and among his doctoral students was Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov. He was made an Academician of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943, spoke at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 and 1932, and the Romanovsky Institute of Mathematics of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences is named for him.