M. D. Donsker

M. D. Donsker

Monroe David Donsker (1925—1991) was an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at New York University (NYU). His research interest was in the field of probability theory.

Donsker was born in Burlington, Iowa. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Minnesota in 1948. He became a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1962, about a year before S.R.S. Varadhan started working there. Before joining NYU, Donsker taught at Cornell and the University of Minnesota.

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