John Kingman

Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born August 28, 1939 in Beckenham ) is a British mathematician who deals with statistics .

Kingman studied from 1956 mathematics at Cambridge University ( Bachelor 1960) with Peter Whittle and then at St Cross College of the University of Oxford with David George Kendall , where he specialized in statistics. Instead of completing his doctorate, he went back to Cambridge with Kendall, where he became a Fellow of Pembroke College . In 1965 he became a reader at the University of Sussex and in 1966 a professor. From 1969 to 1985 he was a professor at Oxford, where he was a fellow at St. Anne's College. Among other things, he was visiting professor at the Australian National University . Kingman made contributions to queuing theory , with applications to traffic flows, and population genetics . In 1968 he proved an ergodic theorem for subadditive stochastic processes (Journal Royal Statistical Society 1968).

In 1967 he received the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society , in 1971 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1983. In 1981 he received the Guy Medal in silver from the Royal Statistical Society , and in 2013 in gold. In 1985 he was ennobled. From 1978 to 1992 he was Vice President of the Institute of Statisticians and 1987 to 1989 of the Royal Statistical Society. From 1990 to 1992 he was President of the London Mathematical Society. In 2000 he became chairman of the British government statistics commission. He is a five-time honorary doctor. In 1985 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol .

Since 1995 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences . In 2007/08 and 2008/09 he was on the Abel Prize Committee.

Fonts

with SJ Taylor: Introduction to measure and probability, Cambridge University Press 1966
On the algebra of queues, Methuen 1966
Regenerative Phenomena, Wiley 1972
Mathematics of Genetic Diversity, SIAM 1980
Poisson Processes, Oxford University Press 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Member Directory: John FC Kingman. National Academy of Sciences, accessed January 1, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kingman, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kingman, John Frank Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beckenham

[1] Member Directory: John FC Kingman. National Academy of Sciences, accessed January 1, 2018 .