Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov
Physicist, Author
1917 – 1947
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Who was Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov?
Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov was a Russian theoretical physicist known for his work on the foundations of statistical physics. He showed that a sufficient condition for a dynamical system to relax to equilibrium is for it to be mixing.
Krylov was born in Ustyuzhna, Vologda Governorate, in the Russian Empire. He graduated from Leningrad University with a degree in physics. He then studied with Fock and wrote a thesis on the foundations of statistical mechanics titled Mixing processes in phase space.
Krylov died after a prolonged illness.
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