Daniel W. Stroock

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Daniel W. Stroock (born March 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American probabilist.

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He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He has taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently Simons Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, for which he received the Steele Prize in 1996. Stroock is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.[1],[2],[3]

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Mathematics is one, and possibly the only, human endeavor for which there is a widely, if not universally, recognized criterion with which to determine truth. For this reason, mathematicians can avoid some of the interminable disputes which plague other fields. On the other hand, I sometimes wonder whether the most interesting questions are not those for which such disputes are inevitable.[4]

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  1. ^ Announcement of the 1996 Steele Prizes at the American Mathematical Society web site, accessed 21-II-2007.
  2. ^ MIT Reports to the President 2001–2002, Department of Mathematics, web page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, accessed 21-II-2007.
  3. ^ CV, Daniel W. Stroock, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong web site, accessed 21-II-2007.
  4. ^ The Wonders of Math, web page at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, accessed 21-II-2007.

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