Ed Perkins
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1953 –
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Who is Ed Perkins?
Edwin Arend Perkins, FRS FRSC is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007.
He obtained his PhD in 1979 under the supervision of Frank Bardsley Knight at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dissertation titled 'A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time'.
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- Born
- Aug 31, 1953
- Also known as
- Edwin Arend Perkins
- Nationality
- Canada
- Employment
- University of British Columbia
(1989 - )
- University of British Columbia
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on July 23, 2013
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