Valery Glivenko

Valery Ivanovich Glivenko (Russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Гливе́нко, Ukrainian: Валерій Іванович Гливенко; 2 January 1897 (Gregorian calendar) / 21 December 1896 (Julian calendar) in Kyiv – 15 February 1940 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician. He worked in the foundations of mathematics, real analysis, probability theory, and mathematical statistics. He taught at the Moscow Industrial Pedagogical Institute^[1] until his death at age 43.^[2][3] Most of Glivenko's work was published in French.

Valery Glivenko
Glivenko circa 1916
Born	(1896-12-21)December 21, 1896 Kyiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	(1940-02-15)February 15, 1940 Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State University (1925)
Scientific career
Academic advisors	Nikolai Luzin

See also

• Glivenko's double-negation translation
• Glivenko's theorem (probability theory)
• Glivenko–Cantelli theorem
• Glivenko–Stone theorem