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Ildar Abdullovich Ibragimov (on his ninetieth birthday)

2023; IOP Publishing; Volume: 78; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4213/rm10101e

1473-2009

Alexander Alekseevich Borovkov, Alexander Bulinski, Анатолий Моисеевич Вершик, Dmitry Zaporozhets, A. S. Holevo, Albert N. Shiryaev,

Advanced Differential Geometry Research

Academician of the Russian Academu of Sciences, prominent mathematician, and one of the leading world experts in probablity theory and mathematical statistics Ildar Abdullovich Ibragimov observed his 90th birthday.He was born in Leningrad in 1932.At that time his father Abdulla Shakirovich worked in the Department of Mechanics of Materials of the Forest Technical Academy (which he had himself graduated from, having enrolled there just after the end of the Civil War).His mother Bella Gil'manovna, a graduate of Kazan' University, worked as a doctor her whole life.In 1937 the father was imprisoned after a false anonymous denunciation.He did not confess guilt and was freed half a year later for lack of corpus delicti.After I. V. Stalin's death he was fully rehabilitated.However, Bella Gilmanovna and their son were exiled for three years to Muromtsevo village in Omsk Oblast, where Ildar went to the first grade of a primary school.Then they moved to Staraya Russa, where the father was at that time and where WW2 caught them.The father was mobilized to the army, while the mother and son did not manage to flee and spent a long period of time under Nazi occupation.After the war the father found an engineering position at a factory in Verkhnyaya Tavda in Sverdlovsk Oblast, and the family moved there.After graduating from the secondary school Ibragimov wanted to continue education at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad University, but he was not admitted there because of his father's arrest record and his own life under occupation.Actually, Ibragimov believed at that time that he was just not good enough.However, neither was he admitted to Leningrad Electotechnical Institute, and there a young guy from the selection committee was frank enough to explain to him the actual reason.