David Reimer (mathematician)

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David "Dave" Reimer (born May 18, 1962 ) is an American mathematician.

Reimer received his PhD from Rutgers University in 1997 .

In 1996 he and Jeff Kahn received the George Pólya Prize . He received this for the proof of the conjecture by J. van den Berg and Harry Kesten (established and proven in a special case by van den Berg and Kesten 1985, inequality of Reimer, also inequality of van den Berg, Kesten and Reimer) in the percolation theory . It gives an upper bound for the probability of the disjoint occurrence of two events by the product of their probabilities.

He is an Associate Professor at the College of New Jersey .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reimer: Proof of the van den Berg-Kesten conjecture , Combinatorics, Probability and Computation, Volume 9, 2000, pp. 27-32
  2. ↑ Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Dana Randall: The van den Berg-Kersten-Reimer inequality: a review , Progress in Probability, 44, 1999, 159-173, pdf
  3. ↑ Faculty list ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mathstat.pages.tcnj.edu
personal data
SURNAME Reimer, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimer, Dave; Reimer, David W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1962