John Michael Hammersley, FRS, 1920-2004

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDP082zbMATH Open1179.01041arXivmath/0610862OpenAlexW1989093667WikidataQ105584091 ScholiaQ105584091MaRDI QIDQ3402354

Geoffrey R. Grimmett, Dominic Welsh

Publication date: 3 February 2010

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In writing this biographical memoir of John Hammersley, we have tried to communicate something of the character of the person, and of the impact of his scientific achievements across lattice models (for example, percolation, self-avoiding walks, first-passage percolation, dimer models), stochastic processes (including subadditive ergodic theory), Monte Carlo methods, applied probability, statistics, and other areas to which he contributed. There is also an extended account of his earlier life, taken from autobiographical notes written around 1994, together with a list of his published work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610862

zbMATH Keywords

obituary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)