K. David Elworthy

Kenneth David Elworthy is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.[1] He works on stochastic analysis, stochastic differential equations and geometric analysis.

K. David Elworthy

Life and career

Elworthy was born on 21 December 1940. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and in 1959 went up to Merton College, Oxford to read Mathematics as an undergraduate. In 1964 he married Susan Margaret Anderson.[2] His DPhil was completed in 1967 under the supervision of Michael Francis Atiyah at the University of Oxford.[3] Before his retirement from Warwick, he held a personal chair there.[4] He also serves on the advisory board of the Center for Integrative Mathematical Sciences at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.[4]

Together with Xue-Mei Li and Yves Le Jan he wrote the books "The Geometry of Filtering" and "On the Geometry of Diffusion Operators and Stochastic Flows".

References
  1. People at the Mathematics Institute, Univ. of Warwick, retrieved 2011-05-02.
  2. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 513.
  3. K. David Elworthy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. CIMS Advisory Board Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Keio U., retrieved 2011-05-02.
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