Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality/Historical Note

Historical Note on Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality

The result now known as the Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality was first formulated, without proof, by Irénée-Jules Bienaymé in $1853$.

The proof was provided by his friend and colleague Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev in $1867$.

Chebyshev's student Andrey Andreyevich Markov provided another proof in his $1884$ Ph.D. thesis.


Sources

  • 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Tchebyshev's inequality (P.L. Tchebyshev, 1874)
  • 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Tchebyshev's inequality (P.L. Tchebyshev, 1874)
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