Krylov, Nicolai
First Name:
Nicolai
Middle Name or Initial:
V.
Last Name:
Krylov
Place and Date of Birth:
Sudogda, Vladimir Region
Employer at time of interview:
University of Minnesota
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
M.Sc. 1963
Degree 1 (School):
Moscow State University
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1966
Degree 2 (School):
Moscow State University
Degree 3 (Type and Year):
D.Sc. 1973
Degree 3 (School):
Moscow State University
Most Recent Employer:
University of Minnesota
Field(s):
probability theory
partial differential equations
Honors:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1993
2004 Steele Prize
Krickeberg, Klaus
Status:
R
First Name:
Klaus
Last Name:
Krickeberg
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
D.Sc., 1952
Degree 1 (School):
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Field(s):
probability theory
Kac, Mark
Status:
D
First Name:
Mark
Last Name:
Kac
Place and Date of Birth:
8/3/1914 (Krzemiemiec, Ukraine)
Place and Date of Death:
10/26/1984
Employer at time of interview:
Rockefeller University
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1937
Degree 1 (School):
Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów
Most Recent Employer:
University of Southern California
Field(s):
probability theory
statistical physics
Honors:
Chauvenet Prize 1968, Birkhoff Prize 1978, National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1965
Links:
For an autobiography, refer to "Mark Kac, Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography, Harper and Row, New York, 1985. ISBN 0060154330"
Itō, Kiyoshi
First Name:
Kiyoshi
Last Name:
Itō
Place and Date of Birth:
9/7/1915 (Nagoya, Japan)
Place and Date of Death:
11/10/2008
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
B.S. 1938
Degree 1 (School):
Tokyo University
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1945
Degree 2 (School):
Tokyo University
Field(s):
probability theory
Honors:
Wolf Prize 1987, Kyoto Prize 1998, DMV/IMU Gauss Prize 2006
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Ito.html
Föllmer, Hans
First Name:
Hans
Last Name:
Föllmer
Place and Date of Birth:
5/20/1941, Heiligenstadt (Germany)
Employer at time of interview:
ETH, Zürich
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
Diploma mathematics 1967
Degree 1 (School):
University of Erlangen
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
PhD
Degree 2 (School):
University of Erlangen
Most Recent Employer:
Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
Field(s):
probability theory
in particular stochastic analysis and applications to mathematical finance
Honors:
• 1973 Emmy Noether award, University of Erlangen
• 1989 Science Prize, GMÖOR (Gesellschaft für Mathematik, Ökonomie und Operations Research)
• 1991 Academia Europaea
• 1996 Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 2002 Prix Gay-Lussac, France
• 2006 Georg Cantor Medal, German Mathematical Society
• 2007 Dr. h. c., Université de Paris-Dauphine
• 2008 A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
Falkner, Neil
First Name:
Neil
Last Name:
Falkner
Place and Date of Birth:
Regina, Canada
Employer at time of interview:
University of British Columbia
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
B.S. 1973
Degree 1 (School):
University of Manitoba
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
M.Sc. 1973
Degree 2 (School):
University of Manitoba
Degree 3 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1978
Degree 3 (School):
University of British Columbia
Most Recent Employer:
Ohio State University
Field(s):
probability theory
Markov processes
potential theory
Dvoretzky, Aryeh
Status:
D
First Name:
Aryeh
Last Name:
Dvoretzky
Place and Date of Birth:
5/3/1916 (Khorol,Russia)
Place and Date of Death:
5/8/2008
Employer at time of interview:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Education
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1941
Degree 2 (School):
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Field(s):
probability theory
analysis
Honors:
Israel Prize for Exact Sciences 1973, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Dvoretzky.html
Also goes by "Arie".
Doob, Joseph
Status:
D
First Name:
Joseph
Middle Name or Initial:
Leo
Last Name:
Doob
Place and Date of Birth:
2/27/1910
Place and Date of Death:
6/7/2004
Employer at time of interview:
University of Illinois
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
B.A. 1930
Degree 1 (School):
Harvard
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1932
Degree 2 (School):
Harvard
Field(s):
probability theory
analysis
Honors:
AMS Steele Prize 1984, National Medal of Science 1979, National Academy of Science, USA 1957
Links:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Doob.html
Donsker, Monroe
Status:
D
First Name:
Monroe
Middle Name or Initial:
David
Last Name:
Donsker
Place and Date of Birth:
1925 (Burlington, Iowa)
Place and Date of Death:
1991
Employer at time of interview:
NYU
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1948
Degree 1 (School):
University of Minnesota
Field(s):
probability theory
Dobrushin, Roland
Status:
D
First Name:
Roland
Middle Name or Initial:
L'vovich
Last Name:
Dobrushin
Place and Date of Birth:
7/20/1929, St. Petersburg
Place and Date of Death:
11/12/1995, Moscow
Employer at time of interview:
Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Academy of Sciences USSR
Education
Degree 1 (Type and Year):
M.Sc. 1952
Degree 1 (School):
Moscow State University
Degree 2 (Type and Year):
Ph.D. 1955
Degree 2 (School):
Moscow State University
Degree 3 (Type and Year):
D.Sc. 1962
Degree 3 (School):
Appl. Math. Institute, Academy of Sci. USSR
Field(s):
probability theory
statistical physics
information theory
Honors:
Moscow Mathematical Society Prize 1955
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1982
National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1993
Academia Europæa 1995