Robert Horton Cameron (May 17, 1908 – July 17, 1989) was an American mathematician, who worked on analysis and

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...

. He is known for the

Cameron–Martin theorem In mathematics, the Cameron–Martin theorem or Cameron–Martin formula (named after Robert Horton Cameron and W. T. Martin) is a theorem of measure theory that describes how abstract Wiener measure changes under translation by certain eleme ...

Education and career

Cameron received his Ph.D. in 1932 from

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under the direction of W. A. Hurwitz. He studied under a National Research Council postdoc at the

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from 1933 to 1935.Cameron, Robert H., Community of Scholars Profile, IAS
/ref> Cameron was a faculty member at

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from 1935 to 1945. He was then a faculty member at the

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until his retirement. He spent the academic year 1953–1954 on sabbatical leave at the Institute for Advanced Study. His doctoral students include Monroe D. Donsker and

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. He had a total of 35 Ph.D. students at the University of Minnesota — his first two graduated in 1946 and his last one in 1977. Cameron published a total of 72 papers — his first in 1934 and his last, posthumously, in 1990.Information provided by Prof. Emeritus David Skoug, U. of Nebraska, Feb. 2013 At MIT, he did some work with

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. During the 1940s Cameron and W. T. Martin, who was from 1943 to 1946 the chair of the mathematics department at

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, engaged in an ambitious program of extending Norbert Wiener's early work on mathematical models of Brownian motion. In 1944, Cameron was awarded the

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'"Some Introductory Exercises in the Manipulation of Fourier Transforms"
which appeared in ''National Mathematics Magazine'', 1941, vol. 15, pages 331–356.

References

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