Alexander Dmitrievich Wentzel
Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Wentzel ( Russian Александр Дмитриевич Вентцель , English transcription Alexander Dmitrievich Wentzell; born February 16, 1937 in Moscow ) is a Russian-American mathematician.
Wentzel studied at Lomonosov University with the degree in 1958 and received his doctorate in 1964 at the Steklow Institute in Moscow with Eugene Dynkin . He taught as a lecturer at Lomonossow University from 1961 and was assistant professor from 1966 to 1991. In 1984 he completed his habilitation at Lomonossow University (Russian doctorate). In 1991/92 he was visiting professor at the University of Maryland and 1992/93 at the University of Minnesota . Since 1993 he has been a professor at Tulane University .
He deals with stochastic processes, probability theory, functional analysis and partial differential equations.
In 1963 he received the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize . In 1978 he was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki .
Fonts
- with Mark Iossifowitsch Freidlin : Random perturbations of dynamical systems, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 260, Springer 1984
Web links
- Homepage at Tulane University
- Genealogy Tree Dynkin School
- Biography at the Dynkin Project (with interview 1989 and biographical data)
- mathnet.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Wentzel in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wentzel, Alexander Dmitrievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wentzell, Alexander Dmitrievich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |