Wim Vervaat

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Wim Vervaat (born July 15, 1942 in Velsen ; † January 31, 1994 ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with stochastic processes and probability theory.

Vervaat received her doctorate in 1972 from the University of Amsterdam under Johannes Runnenburg (Success epochs in Bernoulli trials, with applications to number theory) . He was a professor at the University of Nijmegen . He died by suicide.

Fonts

  • Success epochs in Bernoulli trials: with applications to number theory . Mathematisch Centrum Tracts No. 42, 1972.
  • Functional central limit theorems for processes with positive drift and their inverses . Z. Probability Theory and Related Areas, Volume 23, 1972, pp. 245-253.
  • On a stochastic equation and a representation of non-negative infinitely divisible random variables . Adv. Appl. Prob., Vol. 11, 1979, pp. 750-783.
  • A relation between Brownian bridge and Brownian excursion . Annals of Probability, Volume 7, 1979, pp. 143-149.
  • with GL O'Brien: Marginal distributions of self similar processes with stationary increments . Z. Probability Theory and Related Areas, Volume 64, 1983, pp. 129-138.
  • with Zbigniew J. Jurek: An integral representation for selfdecomposable Banach space valued random variables . Probability Theory and Related Fields, Vol. 62, 1983, pp. 247-262.

literature

  • H. Maassen, FW Steutel: Remembering Wim Vervaat . Statistica Neerlandica, Volume 50, 1996, 225-230.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wim Vervaat in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English) Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used. Published as Mathematisch Centrum Tracts No. 42, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Vervaat, Wim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Velsen
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1994