Mark Pinsky
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Mark A. Pinsky (born 15 July 1940) is Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University. His research areas include probability theory, mathematical analysis, Fourier Analysis and wavelets. Pinsky earned his Ph.D at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mark Pinsky has published ten books and 125 peer-reviewed papers.
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Present affiliation: Northwestern University, Professor of Mathematics
Pinsky has been at Northwestern since 1969, following a two-year postdoctoral position at Stanford. He completed the Ph.D. at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, under the direction of Henry McKean and became Full Professor in 1969. His published work includes more than 100 research papers and 10 books, including several conference proceedings and textbooks. His most recent book "Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets" has been translated into Spanish.
He has been married to artist Joanna Pinsky for forty-four years; they have three children and three grandchildren.
[edit] Academic Memberships and Services
Pinsky is a member of the AMS, IMS, MAA, and MSRI, having published in their journals and served on various committees, most recently as Consulting Editor for the AMS. He served on the Executive Committee of MSRI for the period 1996-2000.
Pinsky will be an invited speaker at the meeting to honor Stanley Zietz.
Pinsky is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Theoretical Probability.
[edit] Mathematical Works
His early work was directed toward generalizations of the central limit theorem, known as ``random evolution, on which he wrote a monograph in 1991. At the same time he became interested in differential equations with noise, computing the Lyapunov exponents of various stochastic differential equations. His current interests include classical harmonic analysis and stochastic Riemannian geometry. The [[Pinsky phenomenon]], a term coined by J.P. Kahane, has become a popular topic for research in harmonic analysis.
Pinsky is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Theoretical Probability.[1]
Pinsky developed the widely-used Pinsky Phenomenon of Fourier Analysis in mathematics.
Pinsky was coordinator of the twenty-ninth Midwest Probability Colloquium, held at Northwestern University in October, 2007,[1] at which S.R.S. Varadhan, the winner of the 2007 Abel Prize spoke.[2]
[edit] Selected publications
- Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets (Brooks/Cole Series in Advanced Mathematics), 2002, ISBN: 9780534376604
- Fourier series of radial functions in several variables
- Pointwise Fourier inversion and related eigenfunction expansions
- Eigenfunction expansions with general boundary conditions
- Pointwise Fourier Inversion-A Wave Equation Approach
- A generalized Kolmogorov for the Hilbert transform
