David F. Anderson (born 5 June 1978 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA) is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [1]
Anderson received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2005. [2]
Anderson received his B.A. in Mathematics from The University of Virginia in 2000.
Anderson graduated from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School in 1996.
In 2018, Anderson was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 2014, Anderson received the inaugural IMA Prize in Mathematics and its Applications. [3] Anderson received this recognition for his contributions to numerical methods for stochastic models in biology and to the mathematical theory of biological interaction networks. [4]
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics.
Kiyosi Itô was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes. He invented the concept of stochastic integral and stochastic differential equation, and is known as the founder of so-called Itô calculus. He also pioneered the world connections between stochastic calculus and differential geometry, known as stochastic differential geometry. He was invited for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm in 1962. So much were Itô's results useful to financial mathematics that he was sometimes called "the most famous Japanese in Wall Street".
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