Johannes Kemperman

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Johannes Kemperman
Born(1924-07-16)July 16, 1924
Amsterdam
DiedJune 13, 2011(2011-06-13) (aged 86)
East Brunswick, New Jersey
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester
Purdue University
Rutgers University
Doctoral advisorDavid van Dantzig
Doctoral students
  • Edgar Acuna
  • Leonard Mirman
  • Martha Siegel

Johannes Henricus Bernardus Kemperman (July 16, 1924 – June 13, 2011) was a Dutch mathematician. He taught at the University of Rochester for 25 years, and also worked at Purdue University and Rutgers University for ten years, each.[1]

Born in Amsterdam, he received his education from the University of Amsterdam.[2]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1969). "On the optimum rate of transmitting information". Probability and Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 89. pp. 126–169. doi:10.1007/BFb0079123. ISBN 978-3-540-04608-0.
  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1963). "A Wiener–Hopf Type Method for a General Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34 (4): 1168–1193. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177703855. JSTOR 2238330.
  • Kemperman, J. H. B. (1960). "On small sumsets in an abelian group". Acta Mathematica. 103 (1–2): 63–88. doi:10.1007/BF02546525.

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