He was a mathematician, member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886). He was born in Ryazan as the son of the secretary of the public forest management of Ryazan, Andrey Grigorevich Markov, and his first wife Nadezhda Petrovna Markova. In the beginning of the 1860s Grigorevich moved to St. Petersburg to become an asset manager of the princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Valvatyeva. In 1866 Andrey Andreevich's school life began with his entrance into St. Petersburg's fifth grammar school. Already during his school time Andrey was intensely engaged in higher mathematics. As a 17-year-old grammar school student he informed Bunyakovsky, Korkin and Yegor Zolotarev about an apparently new method to solve linear ordinary differential equations and was invited to the so-called Korkin Saturdays, where Korkin's students regularly met. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of St. Petersburg in 1878. Two years later he began teaching there. In 1886 he was promoted to professor, and in 1905 to honoured professor. His main focus was on number theory, mathematical analysis and probability theory. Being a determined atheist, he submitted a petition to the Holy Synod in 1912, asking to be excommunicate from the Church. His request was granted. He was buried at the Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery, and reburied at Literatorskie Mostky in 1954. He lived at 1/2 Leytenanta Schmidta Embankment (memorial plaque installed). In 1969, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR instituted the Markov Prize.
He was a mathematician, member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886). He was born in Ryazan as the son of the secretary of the public forest management of Ryazan, Andrey Grigorevich Markov, and his first wife Nadezhda Petrovna Markova. In the beginning of the 1860s Grigorevich moved to St. Petersburg to become an asset manager of the princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Valvatyeva. In 1866 Andrey Andreevich's school life began with his entrance into St. Petersburg's fifth grammar school. Already during his school time Andrey was intensely engaged in higher mathematics. As a 17-year-old grammar school student he informed Bunyakovsky, Korkin and Yegor Zolotarev about an apparently new method to solve linear ordinary differential equations and was invited to the so-called Korkin Saturdays, where Korkin's students regularly met. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of St. Petersburg in 1878. Two years later he began teaching there. In 1886 he was promoted to professor, and in 1905 to honoured professor. His main focus was on number theory, mathematical analysis and probability theory. Being a determined atheist, he submitted a petition to the Holy Synod in 1912, asking to be excommunicate from the Church. His request was granted. He was buried at the Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery, and reburied at Literatorskie Mostky in 1954. He lived at 1/2 Leytenanta Schmidta Embankment (memorial plaque installed). In 1969, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR instituted the Markov Prize.
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