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After leaving school Evgeny Slutsky entered the University of Kiev in 1899 to study mathematics. He was involved in student politics and he participated in student unrest at the university.
Student trouble makers were dealt with by giving them a spell in the army. That is precisely what happened to Slutsky in 1901, but he was not given a particularly long spell and he was soon back at Kiev University. The following year he was in trouble again and this time he was expelled and there was no chance to complete his studies at Kiev.
Slutsky decided on getting an education abroad and he entered Munich Polytechnikum were he was able to complete a degree and return to Kiev in 1905. This time he went for course more in keeping with his political interests, taking a degree in political economics in the Faculty of Law. He graduated with the Gold Medal in 1911.
From 1913 until 1926 he taught at the Kiev Institute of Commerce, then in 1926 he moved to the government statistics offices in Moscow. After eight years there during which time he published important statistical papers, he began teaching at the University of Moscow. From 1938 onwards he worked at the Institute of Mathematics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences.
As a statistician, Slutsky was influenced by Pearson's work and he was interested in both the mathematical background of the statistical methods he studied as well as their application to economics and, later in his career, to natural sciences.
While at the Kiev Institute of Commerce, Slutsky gave the fundamental equation of value theory to economics.
Slutsky introduced stochastic concepts of limits, derivatives and integrals from 1925 to 1928 while he worked at the government statistics offices. In 1927 he showed that subjecting a sequence of independent random variables to a sequence of moving averages generated an almost periodic sequence. This work stimulated the creation of stationary stochastic processes.
He also studied correlations of related series for a limited number of trials. He obtained conditions for measurability of random functions in 1937.
Slutsky applied his theories widely, in addition to economics mentioned above he also studied solar activity using data from 500 BC onwards. Other applications were to diverse topics such as the pricing of grain and the study of chromosomes.
Texto original por: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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