Mon, 11 Oct 2004
15:45
15:45
DH 3rd floor SR
Joe Doob (1910-2004)
Professor N H Bingham
(University of Sheffield)
Abstract
Joe Doob, who died recently aged 94, was the last survivor of the
founding fathers of probability. Doob was best known for his work on
martingales, and for his classic book, Stochastic Processes (1953).
The talk will combine an appreciation of Doob's work and legacy with
reminiscences of Doob the man. (I was fortunate to be a colleague of
Doob from 1975-6, and to get to know him well during that year.)
Following Doob's passing, the mantle of greatest living probabilist
descends on the shoulders of Kiyosi Ito (b. 1915), alas now a sick
man.