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He studied under A. A. Markov at the University of St. Petersburg , graduating in 1912 . He then began research in Probability Theory . He converted to Eastern Orthodoxy , joining the Russian Orthodox Church , on marrying in 1916 . He was appointed professor at the University of Perm in 1917 , and was caught up in the Civil War over the next two years. In 1920 he took a position in Petrograd University. In 1924 he went to Copenhagen and Harald Bohr , on a Rockefeller Fellowship , where he worked on Almost Periodic Function s, which now bear his name. After a visit to G.H. Hardy in Oxford , he had appointments at Liverpool University in 1926 , and the University Of Cambridge in 1927 . He worked mainly on combinatorial methods and questions in Real Analysis , such as the Kakeya Needle Problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch Dimension . These two particular areas have proved increasingly important as the years have gone by. He was a major influence on the economist Piero Sraffa , after 1940 , when they were both Fellows of Trinity College , and on Dennis Lindley , one of the founders of the Bayesian movement in the United Kingdom. He was J.E. Littlewood's successor in 1950 in the Rouse Ball Chair at Cambridge , retiring in 1958 . He died in Cambridge. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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