Yuan-Shih Chow
Yuan-Shih Chow | |
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| 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 |
| 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. 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.