Bernard Silverman
Bernard Walter Silverman (born February 22, 1952 ) is a British mathematician who specializes in mathematical statistics .
Life
Silverman won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He studied from 1970 at the University of Cambridge (Jesus College) with a bachelor's degree in 1973 (Part 3 of the Tripos 1974 with distinction) and received his doctorate there in 1977 with David George Kendall ( Data Analysis, some theory and practice ). In 1976 he received the Smith Prize and he received the University's Mayhew Prize. After completing his doctorate, he developed pocket calculators at Sinclair Radionics, was a Junior Lecturer in Statistics at Oxford in 1977, Lecturer in 1978, Reader in 1980 and Professor of Statistics at the University of Bath in 1984 , where he headed the Mathematics Faculty from 1988 to 1991. In 1993 he became Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol (from 1999 Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics) and was there from 2000 to 2003 Provost of the Institute for Advanced Studies. From 2003 to 2009 he was a Masters at St. Peter's College, Oxford. From 2010 he did research at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and at the Oford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.
In 2010 he was briefly President of the Royal Statistical Society , but gave up when he became Chief Scientific Advisor of the Home Office that same year. He was on the Council of Oxford University and the Royal Society.
He published two books on functional data analysis (statistical analysis and description of random curves and surfaces from discrete observational data).
In 1992 he was invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Paris (Function estimation and functional data analysis). In 1989 he received a D.Sc. in Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1997). He received the Guy Medal in silver from the Royal Statistical Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and a member of the Academia Europaea .
In 2000 he was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Church (and previously as a deacon in 1999). He is admitted as a priest in the Dioceses of Oxford and London.
Fonts (selection)
- with PJ Green: Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A Roughness Penalty Approach . Chapman & Hall 1994
- with JO Ramsay: Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies . Springer-Verlag 2002
- with JO Ramsay: Functional Data Analysis , Springer-Verlag 1997, 2nd edition 2005
- Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis . Chapman & Hall 1986
- with JC Vassilicos (Ed.): Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information? . Oxford University Press 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernard Silverman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Silverman, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silverman, Bernard Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1952 |