Yuan-Shih Chow

Yuan-Shih Chow (Chinese: 周元燊; pinyin: Zhōu Yuánshēn; 1 September 1924 – 3 March 2022), also known as Y. S. Chow or Zhou Yuanshen, was a Chinese and American probabilist.[1] He was Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, United States.

Chow served as director-general of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, and director of the Center of Applied Statistics, Nankai University (Tianjin). He was an academician of the Academia Sinica.

Life

Chow was born in Zhouwan Village, Zhangnan County, Xiangfan, Hubei Province, China. He entered the (National) Hechuan No.2 Meddile School (合川国立二中). But because of the Japanese invasion, he left his hometown and finished his high school education in Chongqing - the capital of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He became a student of the Department of Mathematics, National Chekiang University (Zhejiang University) and he was a student of Su Buqing.[2] About 1949, he went to Taiwan and taught Mathematics at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.[3]

In July 1954, following the advice of Chung Tao Yang, Chow went to USA. He entered the University of Illinois and studied under the guidance of Joseph Leo Doob. In 1958, he received his PhD. He became a staff member at the IBM Watson Research Laboratory, later at Columbia University till 1962. 1962–1968, he served in the Statistics Department, Purdue University. 1968–1993, he was the Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University. He was also a visiting professor at different universities including the University of California at Berkeley, the National Central University in Taiwan, the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He was Professor Emeritus, Columbia University.

Chow died in Hubei province on 3 March 2022, at the age of 97.[4]

Membership

Books by him

  • Probability Theory: Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales, (with Henry Teicher), Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-40607-7 [7]
  • The Theory of Optimal Stopping, with Herbert Robbins and David Siegmund, 1971 [8]

References

  1. ^ Chao Hsiung, Agnes; Zhang, Cun-hui; Ying, Zhiliang, eds. (6 December 2006). Random Walk, Sequential Analysis And Related Topics: A Festschrift In Honor Of Yuan-shih Chow (E-Book). World Scientific Publishing Company. p. 5. ISBN 9789814476652. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^ 周元燊 "1924年9月1日出生于南漳周湾村，1941年考取在合川的国立第二中学，二中毕业後，保送贵州的国立浙江大学数学系..."
  3. ^ A Conversation with Yuan Shih Chow "Taiwan, he taught mathematics as an assistant at National Taiwan University until he came to the United States in 1954."
  4. ^ "In Memoriam: Y. S. Chow (1924–2022)". Columbia University Department of Statistics. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ^ 著名数学家——周元燊院士 "中央研究院院士（第十届 1974年）"
  6. ^ "Y. S. Chow was a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a member of the International Statistical Institute and a member of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica." from [1]
  7. ^ Amazon.com: Yuan Shih Chow: Books
  8. ^ Amazon.com: The Theory of Optimal Stopping: Books: Yuan Shih Chow