| cas : professors Joseph L. Doob mathematics The Center notes with regret that Professor Doob, an original member of the Center for Advanced Study, died June 7, 2004. His distinguished career focused mainly on probability theory, especially the martingale theory used in statistics and mathematical physics. His later work dealt with potential theory and Choquet boundary theory. Professor Doob joined the UIUC faculty in 1935, after completing his doctorate at Harvard University and additional research at Columbia and Princeton. The author of Stochastic Processes (1953), he was appointed to the Center for Advanced Study in 1959 and became a professor emeritus in 1978. He served as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Mathematical Society. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign associate of the Académie des Sciences. In 1979 he was awarded the National Medal of Science; in 1981, an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Illinois; and in 1984, the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize. |
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