Peter E. Ney
Peter E. Ney (born July 6, 1930 in Brno ) is an American mathematician who studies stochastics .
Peter Ney studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1952. He received his doctorate there in 1960 with José Moyal (Some Contributions to the Theory of Cascades). 1958 to 1960 he was an instructor at Cornell University and was there from 1960 to 1963 Assistant Professor. 1963/64 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stanford University and 1964/65 Associate Professor at Cornell University (for Industrial Engineering). In 1965 he became associate professor and 1969 professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he was head of the mathematics faculty from 1974 to 1977.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . In 1971/72 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and visiting professor in Israel (Technion, Weizmann Institute). In 1991 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 1984 he was a Fulbright Fellow .
He is co-author of a monograph in the Grundlehren series on branching processes.
From 1988 he was editor of the Annals of Probability .
Fonts
- with Krishna B. Athreya : Branching Processes, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 196, Springer 1972
- with Alejandro D. de Acosta: Large deviations for additive functionals of Markov chains, Memoirs AMS 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Peter E. Ney in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Ney, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno |