Henry P. McKean, Jr. (December 10, 1930 – April 20, 2024) was an American mathematician at the

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. He worked in various areas of

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. He obtained his

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in 1955 from

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under

William Feller William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Cro ...

. McKean was elected to the

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in 1980. In 2007 he was awarded the

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for his life's work. In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the

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(''Algebraic curves of infinite genus arising in the theory of nonlinear waves''). In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. His doctoral students include

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, Luigi Chierchia,

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Harry Dym Harry Dym (; January 26, 1938 – July 18, 2024) was an Israeli-born American mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Dym's research interests included operator theory, interpolation theory, and inverse problems. Dym earned hi ...

, Daniel Stroock,

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and Pierre van Moerbeke and Uri Keich. McKean died on April 20, 2024, at the age of 93.

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*with

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: ''Diffusion processes and their sample paths.'' Springer 1965. *''Stochastic Integrals.'' New York 1969. *with Harry Dym: ''Fourier series and integrals.'' New York 1972. *with Harry Dym: ''Gaussian processes, function theory and the inverse spectral problem'', Academic Press 1976 *with

: ''Elliptic Curves.'' Cambridge 1997. *Probability: The Classical Limit Theorems, Cambridge University Press, 2014

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* 1930 births 2024 deaths Princeton University alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American probability theorists {{US-mathematician-stub

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