Collected Papers III: Large Deviations - Hardcover

Varadhan, S.R.S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642335462 ISBN 13: 9783642335464

Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

From the Preface: Srinivasa Varadhan began his research career at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, where he started as a graduate student in 1959. His first paper appeared in Sankhyá, the Indian Journal of Statistics in 1962. Together with his fellow students V. S. Varadarajan, R. Ranga Rao and K. R. Parthasarathy, Varadhan began the study of probability on topological groups and on Hilbert spaces, and quickly gained an international reputation. At this time Varadhan realised that there are strong connections between Markov processes and differential equations, and in 1963 he came to the Courant Institute in New York, where he has stayed ever since. Here he began working with the probabilists Monroe Donsker and Marc Kac, and of a young graduate student named Daniel Stroock. He wrote a series of papers on the Martingale Problem and diffusions together with Stroock, and another series of papers on Large Deviations together with Donsker. With this work Varadhan's reputation as one of the leading mathematicians of the time was firmly established. Since then he has contributed to several other topics in probability, analysis and physics, and collaborated with several distinguished mathematicians. These Collected Works contain all his research papers over the half-century from 1962 to early 2012. Volume III includes the papers on large deviations.

About this title

About the Author:

Rajendra Bhatia is Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi, India. He is the author of five books including "Matrix Analysis" and "Positive Definite Matrices.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3642335462
• ISBN 13: 9783642335464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 630
• Editor: Bhatia Rajendra, Bhatt Abhay, Parthasarathy K.R.