Bingham, N. H. The life, work, and legacy of P. L. Chebyshev. (English) Zbl 1492.01012 Theory Probab. Appl. 66, No. 4, 506-521 (2022) and Teor. Veroyatn. Primen. 66, No. 4, 636-656 (2021). This article surveys briefly the life and work of Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821–1894) and his ongoing influence. It discusses Chebyshev’s contributions to number theory, probability theory, analysis, the moment problem and mechanical devices; his pupils and descendants in mathematics; and his role as the founding father of Russian mathematics in general and of the Russian school of probability in particular. It contains 90 items of references. Reviewer: Ren Guo (Corvallis) Cited in 1 Document MSC: 01A55 History of mathematics in the 19th century 60-03 History of probability theory Keywords:distribution of prime numbers; Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality; law of large numbers; central limit theorem; Chebyshev polynomials; Chebyshev alternant; moment problem Biographic References: Chebyshëv, Pafnutiĭ L’vovich × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI arXiv References: [1] N. I. Achieser, Theory of Approximation, translated by Charles J. Hyman, Frederick Ungar, New York, 1956; reprinted by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1992. · Zbl 0072.28403 [2] N. I. Akhiezer, The Classical Moment Problem and Some Related Questions in Analysis, Hafner, New York, 1965; reprint, Classics App. Math. 82, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611976397. · Zbl 0135.33803 [3] J. Bertrand, Mémoire sur le nombre de valeurs que peut prendre une fonction quant on y permute des lettres qu’elle renferme, J. Ec. Roy. 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