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Daniel Stroock · Science & Medicine

What

Probability; the Stroock-Varadhan martingale problem

When

1940, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Daniel Stroock is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Probability; the Stroock-Varadhan martingale problem

How & why

Daniel W. Stroock is a mathematician at MIT who, with S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, formulated the martingale problem approach to diffusion processes, a foundational advance in modern probability theory. He is the author of influential texts on stochastic analysis. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Probability; the Stroock-Varadhan martingale problem

1940

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics