Yuan-Shih Chow
Yuan-Shih Chow | |
|---|---|
| 周元燊 | |
| Born | September 1, 1924 |
| Died | March 3, 2022 (aged 97) Hubei Province, China |
| Known for | Optimal stopping |
| Academic background | |
| Education | National Chekiang University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | The Theory of Martingales in an S-Finite Measure Space Indexed by Directed Sets (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Leo Doob |
| Other advisor | Abraham Taub[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | National Taiwan University IBM Purdue University Columbia University |
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.[2] 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
[edit | edit source]Chow was born in Zhouwan Village, Zhangnan County, Xiangfan, Hubei Province, China. He entered the (National) Hechuan No. 2 Middle 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 (now Zhejiang University) and he was a student of Su Buqing.[3] About 1949, he went to Taiwan and taught Mathematics at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.[4]
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. After postdoctoral research with Abraham Taub at the University of Illinois, he became a staff member at the IBM Watson Research Laboratory and became a member of the research staff. Chow started teaching at Columbia University in 1961 as an assistant professor. From 1962 to 1968, he served in the Statistics Department, Purdue University, where he was promoted from associate professor to full professor. He returned to Columbia University in1968, where he was the Professor of Mathematical Statistics, and worked there until his retirement in 1993. During this period, Chow 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.[1]
Chow died in Hubei province on 3 March 2022, at the age of 97.[5][6]
Membership
[edit | edit source]- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1966 election) [7]
- Fellow, International Statistical Institute (1980 election)[8]
- Academician, Academia Sinica (1974 election)[9]
Books by Yuan-Shih Chow
[edit | edit source]- Probability Theory: Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales, with Henry Teicher, 1978[10][11]
- The Theory of Optimal Stopping, with Herbert Robbins and David Siegmund, 1971 [12]
References
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- ^ 周元燊[permanent dead link] "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..."
- ^ 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."
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- ^ 著名数学家——周元燊院士 Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine "中央研究院院士（第十届 1974年）"
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External links
[edit | edit source]- A Conversation with Yuan Shih Chow, abstract (English)
- A Conversation with Yuan Shih Chow pdf version, full biography including photos, by Zhiliang Ying and Cun-Hui Zhang(English)
- Archive at Harvard University (English)
- Chow's biography from the website of East China Normal University[permanent dead link](Chinese)
- Chow's résumé Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Chinese)
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- 1924 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century Chinese mathematicians
- 21st-century Chinese mathematicians
- Chinese expatriate academics in the United States
- Zhejiang University alumni
- American statisticians
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
- Chinese statisticians
- Academic staff of Nankai University
- Columbia University faculty
- Educators from Hubei
- People from Xiangyang
- Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
- Mathematicians from Hubei
- Members of Academia Sinica
- Probability theorists
- IBM people
- Purdue University faculty