In 1966 Grenander was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden, and in 1996 to the
US National Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[4] He received an honorary doctorate in 1994 from the University of Chicago, and in 2005 from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm, Sweden.[5]
He was active as a 1950–1951 Associate Professor at Stockholm University, 1951–1952 at University of Chicago, At 1952–1953 University of California–Berkeley, At Stockholm University 1953–1957, at Brown University 1957–1958 and 1958–1966 again at Stockholm University, where he succeeded in 1959 Harald Cramér as the Professor in actuarial science and mathematical statistics. From 1966 until his retirement, Grenander was L. Herbert Ballou University Professor at Brown University. In 1969–1974 he was also professor of Applied Mathematics at The Royal Institute of Technology.[8]
Selected works
Grenander, Ulf (2012). A Calculus of Ideas: A Mathematical Study of Human Thought. World Scientific Publishing.
ISBN978-9814383189.
Grenander, Ulf; Miller, Michael (2007). Pattern Theory: From Representation to Inference. Oxford University Press.
ISBN978-0199297061.
Grenander, Ulf (1996). Elements of Pattern Theory. Johns Hopkins University Press.
ISBN978-0801851889.
Grenander, Ulf (1994). General Pattern Theory. Oxford Science Publications.
ISBN978-0198536710.
^Grenander, Ulf (1950). Stochastic processes and statistical inference. Arkiv för matematik, 0004-2080; 1:17 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.