Krishna B. Athreya
Krishna Balasundaram Athreya (born December 12, 1939 in Madras ) is an Indian mathematician who deals with stochastics .
Athreya studied at the University of Madras with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and received her doctorate in 1967 from Stanford University with Samuel Karlin (Limit Theorems for Multitype Continuous Time Markov Branching Processes and Some Classical Urn Schemes). In 1968 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . 1971 to 1979 he was Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore . From 1980 he was a professor at Iowa State University , where he became a Distinguished Professor.
He was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , the Australian National University , the University of Copenhagen and the University of Milwaukee.
He deals with limit theorems for Markov chains, branching processes (on which he published a monograph), mathematical statistics, integral equations and stochastic modeling in applications.
He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . From 1978 he was co-editor of the journal for probability theory.
Fonts
- with Peter E. Ney : Branching Processes, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 196, Springer 1972
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Krishna B. Athreya in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Krishna B. Athreya in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Athreya, Krishna B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Athreya, Krishna Balasundaram (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madras |