Sergei Kerov

Sergei Vasilyevich Kerov (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Керов; born 21 June 1946 in Leningrad died 30 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician and university professor. His research included operator algebras, combinatorics, probability and representation theory.

Life Kerov was born in 1946 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). His father Vasily Kerov was a teacher for analytical chemistry at a university in Leningrad and his mother Marianna Nikolayeva was an expert in seed physiology.

In 1977 he proved together with Anatoly Vershik a limit theorem for the Plancherel measure for the symmetric group with a limiting shape which is now called Vershik–Kerov curve. The same result was also independently proved by Logan and Shepp and thus is also called Logan–Shepp curve. The result was later improved by Kerov to a central limit theorem.

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