Vytautas Statulevičius

Garbės profesorius / Honorary Professor (Suteiktas vardas 2000-06-29)

Academician Vytautas Statulevičius (1929-2003) was one of the most active re-establishers of the University, a long-time Head of the Department of Mathematics, a Habilitated Doctor of Physical Sciences, and winner of the LSSR State Prize (1956, 1988), the USSR M.A. Markov Prize (1971), and the USSR State Prize (1979).

From 1945 to 1946, he attended the Antalieptė Agricultural School (in Zarasai district), and from 1949 to 1954, he studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Vilnius University (VU). In 1957, he completed the postgraduate programme at Leningrad State University.

That same year, he began working at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences as a senior researcher at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics (IPM). In 1959, he became the Head of the Department of Probability Theory, a position he held until 1966, when he became the Director of the IPM and a professor at VU (until 1990). In 1977, following the division of the Institute, he was appointed Head of the newly formed Institute of Mathematics and Cybernetics, which was renamed the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in 1990. In 1990, he became a professor at VMU, and from 1985 to 1991, he served as the Vice-President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Statulevičius authored around 100 scientific papers and co-authored the monographs “Limit Theorems for Large Deviations” (with Leonas Saulis, 1989, in Russian), “Limit Theorems for Large Deviations” (with Leonas Saulis, London, 1991), and “Limit Theorems of Probability Theory” (1991, in Russian). He was a member of the International Statistical Institute and the American Mathematical Society, and was listed in “Who’s Who in the World.” He chaired the Organising Committee of the International Conferences on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (1973-1998), and was a member of the editorial boards of the international journals “Theory of Probability and Its Applications” and “Lietuvos matematikos rinkinys” (Proceedings of The Lithuanian Mathematical Society).

He was a full member of the Division of Mathematical, Physical, and Chemical Sciences of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

Based on information provided by VMU Library.