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'''William T. Martin''' (1911, [[Arkansas]] – 30 May 2004), known as "William Ted Martin" or "Ted Martin", was an American mathematician, who worked on [[mathematical analysis]], [[several complex variables]], and [[probability theory]]. He is known for the [[Cameron–Martin theorem]] and for his 1948 book ''Several complex variables'', co-authored with [[Salomon Bochner]].

 

W. T. Martin received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Arkansas in 1930. He did graduate work at the [[University of Illinois]], where he received his M.A. in 1931 and his Ph.D. in 1934 under the direction of [[Robert Carmichael]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=4122}}</ref> He studied under a [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] postdoctoral fellowship at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]] from 1934 to 1936.<ref name="MartinPrinceton">[http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/wmartin01 Martin, William T., Community of Scholars Profile, IAS]</ref> In 1936 Martin became an instructor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and in 1938 a faculty member there. He collaborated with several fellow MIT faculty members, notably [[Norbert Wiener]], [[Robert Horton Cameron|R. H. Cameron]], [[Stefan Bergman]], and Salomon Bochner. During the 1940s Martin and R. H. Cameron wrote a series of papers extending Norbert Wiener's early work on mathematical models of Brownian motion.<ref name="Kac">{{cite book|author=Kac, Mark|authorlink=Mark Kac|title=Enigmas of Chance|year=1985|location=New York|publisher=Harper & Row|page=113|isbn=0520059867}}</ref> During the 1950s W. T. Martin wrote with Salomon Bochner a series of papers that proved basic results in the theory of several complex variables.