Peter Whittle

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name = Peter Whittle

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birth_date = birth date and age|1927|02|27
birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand
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work_institutions = University of Uppsala (1953-61)
University of Manchester (1961-67)
University of Cambridge (1967-94)
alma_mater = University of New Zealand (M.Sc. 1948)
University of Uppsala (Ph.D. 1953)
doctoral_advisor = Herman Wold
doctoral_students = Alan Branford
Frank Kelly
Sir John Kingman
Stratis Kounias
Mario Lefebvre
David Probert
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prizes = Fellow of the Royal Society (1978)
Sylvester Medal (1994)
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Peter Whittle (born 27 February 1927, in Wellington, New Zealandref|nzms) is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridgeref|homeref|history6.

Whittle graduated in 1948 with a M.Sc. from the University of New Zealand.ref label|nzms|1|a He then moved to the University of Uppsala in 1950 to study for his Ph.D.ref label|nzms|1|b with Herman Wold; his thesis, "Hypothesis Testing in Time Series", was published by 1951ref label|home|2|a. He remained in Uppsala until 1953 when, having met his wife Kathe, he moved back to New Zealand. He worked at the DSIR Applied Mathematics Laboratory (later the Applied Mathematics Division) until 1959 when he was appointed to a lectureship in Cambridgeref label|nzms|1|cref|history4. This appointment was brief however; Whittle was appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Manchester in 1961.ref label|nzms|1|dref label|history6|3|aref|informs After 6 years in Manchester, Whittle returned to Cambridge as the Churchill Professor in Mathematics for Operational Research, a post he held until his retirement in 1994. From 1973, he was also head of the Statistical Laboratory in Cambridge.ref|history7

Whittle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978,ref|frs and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1981.ref|frsnz The Royal Society awarded him their Sylvester Medal in 1994 in recognition of his "major distinctive contributions to time series analysis, to optimisation theory, and to a wide range of topics in applied probability theory and the mathematics of operational research".ref|sylvester In 1986, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences awarded Whittle the Lanchester Prize for his book "Systems in Stochastic Equilibrium" (ISBN 0-471-90887-8) and the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1997ref label|informs|5|a for his "outstanding contributions to the theory of operations research and management science".ref|lanchester

Whittle has six children.ref label|nzms|1|eref|kids

Bibliography

#cite book|title=Hypothesis Testing in Time Series Analysis|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=Almquist and Wicksell|date=1951
#cite book|title=Prediction and Regulation|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=English Universities Press|date=1963
#:Republished as: cite book|title=Prediction and Regulation by Linear Least-Square Methods|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|date=1983|id=ISBN 0-8166-1148-3
#cite book|title=Probability (Library of university mathematics)|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=Penguin|date=1970|id=ISBN 0-14-080085-9
#:Republished as: cite book|title=Probability|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=April 30 1976|id=ISBN 0-471-01657-8
#cite book|title=Optimization Under Constraints|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=July 28 1971|id=ISBN 0-471-94130-1
#cite book|title=Optimization Over Time|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=August 4 1982|id=ISBN 0-471-10120-6
#cite book|title=Optimization Over Time: Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=April 1983|id=ISBN 0-471-10496-5
#cite book|title=Systems in Stochastic Equilibrium|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=June 4 1986|id=ISBN 0-471-90887-8
#cite book|title=Risk-Sensitive Optimal Control|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=April 1990|id=ISBN 0-471-92622-1
#cite book|title=Probability Via Expectation|edition=3rd edition|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=Springer Verlag|date=May 14 1992|id=ISBN 0-387-97758-9 (hardcover), ISBN 0-387-97764-3 (paperback)
#:Republished as: cite book|title=Probability Via Expectation|edition=4th edition|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=Springer|date=April 20 2000|id=ISBN 0-387-98955-2
#cite book|title=Optimal Control: Basics and Beyond|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=July 18 1996|id=ISBN 0-471-95679-1
#cite book|title=Neural Nets and Chaotic Carriers|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=John Wiley and Sons Ltd|date=December 8 1998|id=ISBN 0-471-98541-4
#cite book|title=Networks: Optimisation and Evolution|author=Whittle, P.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=May 31 2007|id=ISBN 0-521-87100-6

External links

* [http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/ Webpage of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory]

References

#note label|nzms|1|anote label|nzms|1|bnote label|nzms|1|cnote label|nzms|1|dnote label|nzms|1|ecite web|url=http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/centrefolds/22/Dec1981.shtml|title=NZMS Newsletter 22 Centrefold, December 1981|author=J.H. Darwin|accessdate=2006-01-03
#note label|history6|3|acite web|url=http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/History/2history.html#6|title=The History of the Statistical Laboratory, section 6|author=Cambridge Statistical Laboratory|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/History/2history.html#4|title=The History of the Statistical Laboratory, section 4|author=Cambridge Statistical Laboratory|accessdate=2006-01-03
#note label|informs|5|acite web|url=http://www.informs.org/Prizes/vonNeumannDetails.html|title= John von Neumann Theory Prize Winners, 1997 section|author=Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/History/2history.html#4|title=The History of the Statistical Laboratory, section 7|author=Cambridge Statistical Laboratory|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.royalsociety.ac.uk/view_fellow.cfm?FID=1616&N=w|title=Directory of Fellows of the Royal Society|author=Royal Society|accessdate=2006-01-03and [http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo='EC/1978/39'&dsqDb=Catalog Certificate of Election and Candidature]
#cite web|url=http://www.rsnz.org/directory/yearbooks/year00/app2.php|title=List of Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1870-2000|author=Royal Society of New Zealand|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.royalsociety.ac.uk/page.asp?id=1766Z|title=Sylvester recent winners|author=The Royal Society|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.informs.org/Prizes/LanchesterPrize.html|title=Frederik W. Lanchester Prize|author=Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences|accessdate=2006-01-03
#cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=8717|title=Peter Whittle|author=Mathematics Genealogy Project|accessdate=2005-01-03Persondata
NAME=Whittle, Peter
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Mathematician and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH=27 February 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH=Wellington, New Zealand
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