Johannes Kemperman

Johannes Kemperman
Born(1924-07-16)July 16, 1924
Amsterdam
DiedJune 13, 2011(2011-06-13) (aged 86)
East Brunswick, New Jersey
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Purdue University
Rutgers University
Doctoral advisorDavid van Dantzig
Doctoral students

Johannes Henricus Bernardus Kemperman (July 16, 1924 – June 13, 2011) was a Dutch mathematician. He taught at the University of Rochester for 25 years, and also worked at Purdue University and Rutgers University for ten years, each.[1]

Born in Amsterdam, he received his education from the University of Amsterdam.[2]

Selected publications

  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1969). "On the optimum rate of transmitting information". Probability and Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 89. pp. 126–169. doi:10.1007/BFb0079123. ISBN 978-3-540-04608-0.
  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1963). "A Wiener–Hopf Type Method for a General Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34 (4): 1168–1193. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177703855. JSTOR 2238330.
  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1960). "On small sumsets in an abelian group". Acta Mathematica. 103 (1–2): 63–88. doi:10.1007/BF02546525.

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Johannes Kemperman, 1924–2011". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
  2. ^ Naus, Joseph I. (2000). "A conversation with Johannes H. B. Kemperman". Statist. Sci. 15 (4): 396–408. doi:10.1214/ss/1009213005.