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American mathematician (1930–2024)
Henry P. McKean, Jr.
[1] (1930 in
Wenham, Massachusetts – April 20, 2024) was an American mathematician at the
Courant Institute in
New York University. He worked in various areas of
analysis. He obtained his
PhD in 1955 from
Princeton University under
William Feller.
He was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1980. In 2007 he was awarded the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for his life's work. In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in
Helsinki (Algebraic curves of infinite genus arising in the theory of nonlinear waves). In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society.
[2]
His doctoral students include
Michael Arbib,
Luigi Chierchia,
Donald A. Dawson,
Harry Dym,
Daniel Stroock,
Eugene Trubowitz,
Victor Moll and
Pierre van Moerbeke and Uri Keich.
McKean died on April 20, 2024.
[3]
Works
Selected articles
- McKean, H. P. (1956).
"Elementary solutions for certain parabolic partial differential equations". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (2): 519–548.
doi:
10.1090/S0002-9947-1956-0087012-3.
MR
0087012.
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Blumenthal, R. M.;
Getoor, R. K.; McKean Jr., H. P. (1962).
"Markov processes with identical hitting distributions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 68 (4): 372–374.
doi:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10813-1.
ISSN
0002-9904.
-
Levinson, N.; McKean, H. P. (1964).
"Weighted trigonometrical approximation on
with application to the germ field of a stationary Gaussian process". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 70: 128–129.
doi:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1964-11049-1.
- McKean, H. P.;
Singer, I. M. (1967).
"Curvature and the eigenvalues of the Laplacian". J. Differential Geom. 1 (1–2): 43–69.
doi:
10.4310/jdg/1214427880.
ISSN
0273-0979.
- McKean, H. P. (1969).
"A simple model of the derivation of fluid mechanics from the Boltzmann equation". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 75: 1–10.
doi:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1969-12128-2.
MR
0235792.
- McKean, H. P.; Trubowitz, E. (1978).
"Hill's surfaces and their theta functions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1042–1085.
doi:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14542-X.
- McKean, H. P.;
Moll, V. (1985).
"A threshold for a caricature of the nerve equation". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (2): 255–260.
doi:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1985-15367-4.
ISSN
0273-0979.
Books
- with
Kiyosi Itô: Diffusion processes and their sample paths. Springer 1965.
- Stochastic Integrals. New York 1969.
- with Harry Dym: Fourier series and integrals. New York 1972.
[4]
- with Harry Dym: Gaussian processes, function theory and the inverse spectral problem, Academic Press 1976
[5]
- with
Victor Moll: Elliptic Curves. Cambridge 1997.
- Probability: The Classical Limit Theorems, Cambridge University Press, 2014
See also
References
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