Education
Pinsker studied stochastic processes under A. North. Kolmogorov in the 1950s, and later worked at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
mathematician computer scientist
Pinsker studied stochastic processes under A. North. Kolmogorov in the 1950s, and later worked at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
His work in mathematical statistics was devoted mostly to the applications of information theory, including asymptotically sufficient statistics for parameter estimation and nonparametric estimation. He also produced notable results in the theory of switching networks and complexity problems in coding theory.
His accomplishments included a classic paper on the entropy theory of dynamical systems which introduced the maximal partition with zero entropy, later known as Pinsker"s partition. Pinsker received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Claude E. Shannon Award in 1978, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard W. Hamming Medal in 1996.
