Ildar Ibragimov (mathematician)

Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov (Ильдар Абдулович Ибрагимов, born 15 July 1932, Leningrad) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in probability theory and mathematical statistics.

[1] Ibragimov is the son of a father who was an engineer with Bashkir ancestry and a mother who was a physician from a Tatar family with origins in Kazan.

Ildar Ibragimov studied at Leningrad State University, where he graduated in mathematics in 1956.

He is a senior scientist and director of the laboratory of statistical methods at the Steklov Institute in Saint Petersburg, a position he has held there since 1972 as the successor to Yuri Linnik.

[3] His doctoral students include Taivo Arak and Boris Tsirelson.