Daniel W. Stroock | |
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Born | March 20, 1940 New York City, US | (age 84)
Alma mater | Rockefeller University |
Known for |
Diffusion process Malliavin calculus |
Awards | Steele Prize (1996) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
Courant Institute University of Colorado, Boulder MIT |
Doctoral advisor | Mark Kac |
Daniel Wyler Stroock (born March 20, 1940) is an American mathematician, a probabilist. He is regarded and revered as one of the fundamental contributors to Malliavin calculus with Shigeo Kusuoka and the theory of diffusion processes with S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan with an orientation towards the refinement and further development of Itô’s stochastic calculus.
He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He has taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently Simons Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, for which he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in 1996. [1]
Stroock is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. [2], [3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4]
Mathematics is one, and possibly the only, human endeavor for which there is a widely, if not universally, recognized criterion with which to determine truth. For this reason, mathematicians can avoid some of the interminable disputes which plague other fields. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the most interesting questions are not those for which such disputes are inevitable. [5]
Daniel W. Stroock | |
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Born | March 20, 1940 New York City, US | (age 84)
Alma mater | Rockefeller University |
Known for |
Diffusion process Malliavin calculus |
Awards | Steele Prize (1996) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions |
Courant Institute University of Colorado, Boulder MIT |
Doctoral advisor | Mark Kac |
Daniel Wyler Stroock (born March 20, 1940) is an American mathematician, a probabilist. He is regarded and revered as one of the fundamental contributors to Malliavin calculus with Shigeo Kusuoka and the theory of diffusion processes with S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan with an orientation towards the refinement and further development of Itô’s stochastic calculus.
He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He has taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently Simons Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, for which he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in 1996. [1]
Stroock is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. [2], [3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4]
Mathematics is one, and possibly the only, human endeavor for which there is a widely, if not universally, recognized criterion with which to determine truth. For this reason, mathematicians can avoid some of the interminable disputes which plague other fields. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the most interesting questions are not those for which such disputes are inevitable. [5]