Editing Pafnuty Chebyshev (section)

{{Short description|Russian mathematician (1821–1894)}}
{{redirect|Chebyshev|other uses|Chebyshev (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Pafnuty Chebyshev
|image = Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.jpg
|image_size = 240px
|caption = Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1821|05|16}}<ref name=brit>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pafnuty-Lvovich-Chebyshev Pafnuty Chebyshev]. Encyclopaedia Britannica</ref>
|birth_place = [[Zhukovsky District, Kaluga Oblast|Akatovo]], [[Kaluga Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]<ref name=brit/>
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1894|12|08|1821|05|16}}<ref name=brit/>
|death_place = [[St. Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]]<ref name=brit/><ref name=McT>{{cite web|title=Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev|website=MacTutor|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chebyshev/|access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref>
| other_names = Chebysheff, Chebyshov, Tschebyscheff, Tschebycheff, Tchebycheff
|nationality = [[Russia]]n
|alma_mater = [[Moscow University]]
|academic_advisors = [[Nikolai Brashman]]
|notable_students = [[Dmitry Grave]]<br />[[Aleksandr Korkin]]<br />[[Aleksandr Lyapunov]]<br />[[Andrey Markov]]<br />[[Vladimir Andreevich Markov]]<br />[[Konstantin Posse]]<br>[[Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev]]
|known_for  = Work on [[probability]], [[statistics]], [[mechanics]], [[analytical geometry]] and [[number theory]]
|footnotes = 
|field = [[Mathematician]]
|work_institution = [[St. Petersburg University]]
|prizes = [[Demidov Prize]] (1849)
| signature=Pafnuty Chebyshev signature.png
}}

'''Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev''' ({{lang-rus|Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв|p=pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof}}) ({{OldStyleDate|16 May|1821|4 May}} – {{OldStyleDate|8 December|1894|26 November}})<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9022729/Pafnuty-Lvovich-Chebyshev Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev – Britannica Online Encyclopedia]</ref> was a [[list of Russian mathematicians|Russian mathematician]] and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.

Chebyshev is known for his fundamental contributions to the fields of [[probability]], [[statistics]], [[mechanics]], and [[number theory]]. A number of important mathematical concepts are named after him, including the [[Chebyshev inequality]] (which can be used to prove the [[weak law of large numbers]]), the [[Bertrand's postulate|Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem]], [[Chebyshev polynomial]]s, [[Chebyshev linkage]], and [[Chebyshev bias]].