Gopinath Kallianpur

Gopinath B. Kallianpur (born April 16, 1925 in Mangalore , † February 19, 2015 ) was an Indian statistician.

Kallianpur studied at the University of Madras with a bachelor's degree in 1945 and a master's degree in 1946. He then worked with DD Kosambi at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and with S. Minakshisundaram at Andhra University . In 1951 he received his doctorate on stochastic processes under Herbert Robbins at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . As a post-doctoral student he was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1952/53 at the Institute for Advanced Study . 1953 to 1956 he was at the Indian Statistical Institute(ISI). 1956 to 1959 he was at the University of Minnesota (as visiting associate professor), then at Indiana University as associate professor, 1961 to 1963 professor at Michigan State University and from 1963 professor at the University of Minnesota. From 1976 to 1979 he was director of the ISI. From 1979 he was a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he retired in 2001. He then moved to Nashville.

Among other things, he dealt with filter theory and financial mathematics.

Kallianpur was a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Fonts

• Stochastic filtering theory, Springer Verlag 1980
• with RL Karandikar: Introduction to Option Pricing Theory, Birkhäuser 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BV Rao, Rajeeva L. Karandikar: Obituary: Gopinath Kallianpur, 1925-2015. In: IMS Bulletin. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 28, 2015, accessed January 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project