Daniel W. Stroock

Daniel W. Stroock
Daniel Stroock in 1976 (photo from MFO)
Born	March 20, 1940 New York City, USA
Residence	U.S.A.
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Courant Institute University of Colorado, Boulder MIT
Alma mater	Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisor	Mark Kac
Known for	Diffusion process Malliavin calculus
Notable awards	Steele Prize (1996)

Daniel Wyler Stroock (born March 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American mathematician, a probabilist.

Biography

He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He has taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently Simons Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, for which he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in 1996.^[1] Stroock is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.^[2],[3]

Quotes

Mathematics is one, and possibly the only, human endeavor for which there is a widely, if not universally, recognized criterion with which to determine truth. For this reason, mathematicians can avoid some of the interminable disputes which plague other fields. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the most interesting questions are not those for which such disputes are inevitable.^[4]

References

1. ^ "1996 Steele Prizes". Notices of the American Mathematical Society 43 (11): 1340–1347. November 1996 (1996-11). http://www.ams.org/notices/199611/comm-steele.pdf. Retrieved September 29, 2011 (2011-09-29). 
2. ^ MIT Reports to the President 2001–2002, Department of Mathematics, web page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, accessed 21-II-2007.
3. ^ CV, Daniel W. Stroock, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong web site, accessed 21-II-2007.
4. ^ The Wonders of Math, web page at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, accessed 21-II-2007.

External links

• Home page for Daniel W. Stroock

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Date of birth	March 20, 1940
Place of birth	New York City, USA
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