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Chapman, Sydney
[person]
British-American geophysicist and mathematician born in Eccles, Lancashire (1888-1970). In 1939, Chapman co-authored the classic work The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases. The following year, he co-authored the two-volume work Geomagnetism. His most famous work in mathematics was his research in stochastic processes, for which he developed (independently of Andrey Kolmogorov) the Chapman-Kolmogorov equations.
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