Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov

Mikhail Menshikov
Born	January 17, 1948 (1948-01-17) (age 63) Moscow
Residence	England
Nationality	Russian and British
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Durham
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Vadim Malyshev

Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ме́ньшиков, born 1948) is a Russian-British mathematician with publications in area ranging from probability to combinatorics. He currently holds the post of professor in the University of Durham.

Menshikov has made a substatntial contribution to percolation theory and the theory of random walks.

Menshikov was born in Moscow and went to school in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He studied at Moscow State University earning all his degrees up to Candidate of Sciences (1976) and Doctor of Sciences (1988). After briefly working in Zhukovsky, Menshikov worked in Moscow State University for a long time. Later his career had taken him to University of Sao Paulo before becoming a professor at the University of Durham.

External links

• Personal webpage
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Menshikov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Alternative names
Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death

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