Robert Horton Cameron
Robert Horton Cameron | |
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Born | (1908-05-17)May 17, 1908 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
Died | July 17, 1989(1989-07-17) (aged 81) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
Nationality | American |
Education | Cornell University |
Known for | Cameron–Martin theorem |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1944) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematician |
Institutions | MIT University of Minnesota |
Thesis | Almost Periodic Transformations[1] (1932) |
Doctoral advisor | W. A. Hurwitz |
Doctoral students | Elizabeth Cuthill Monroe D. Donsker |
Robert Horton Cameron (May 17, 1908 – July 17, 1989) was an American mathematician, who worked on analysis and probability theory. He is known for the Cameron–Martin theorem.
Education and career
Cameron received his Ph.D. in 1932 from Cornell University under the direction of W. A. Hurwitz.[2][3] He studied under a National Research Council postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1933 to 1935.[4] Cameron was a faculty member at MIT from 1935 to 1945. He was then a faculty member at the University of Minnesota until his retirement. He spent the academic year 1953–1954 on sabbatical leave at the Institute for Advanced Study.[4] His doctoral students include Monroe D. Donsker and Elizabeth Cuthill. He had a total of 35 Ph.D. students at the University of Minnesota — his first two graduated in 1946 and his last one in 1977. Cameron published a total of 72 papers — his first in 1934 and his last, posthumously, in 1990.[5]
At MIT, he did some work with Norbert Wiener. During the 1940s Cameron and W. T. Martin, who was from 1943 to 1946 the chair of the mathematics department at Syracuse University, engaged in an ambitious program of extending Norbert Wiener's early work on mathematical models of Brownian motion.[6] In 1944, Cameron was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for '"Some Introductory Exercises in the Manipulation of Fourier Transforms", which appeared in National Mathematics Magazine, 1941, vol. 15, pages 331–356.
References
- ^ "Selected Graduate Students 1868--1968 | Department of Mathematics". math.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ^ Robert Horton Cameron at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Cameron, Robert Horton 1908– (WorldCat Identities) Cameron's thesis Almost periodic transformations was published in 3 different editions from 1932 to 1934. The copy in the U. S. Library of Congress is a 1934 edition. A 1932 edition published by Cornell U. is 170 pages long.
- ^ a b Cameron, Robert H., Community of Scholars Profile, IAS
- ^ Information provided by Prof. Emeritus David Skoug, U. of Nebraska, Feb. 2013
- ^ Kac, Mark (1985). Enigmas of Chance. New York: Harper & Row. p. 113. ISBN 0520059867.
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer