Rollo Davidson
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Rollo Davidson (b. Bristol, 8 October 1944, d. Piz Bernina, 29 July 1970) was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina.
In 1975 a fund was established at Churchill College in his memory, endowed initially through the publication in his honour of two volumes[1] of papers, edited by E. F. Harding and D. G. Kendall.[2] A prize from the Rollo Davidson Trust Fund has been awarded annually since 1976 to young probabilists.[3] The second winner of the Rollo Davidson Prize, Olav Kallenberg, won the prize for settling (negatively) a conjecture on the stochastic geometry of lines in the Euclidean plane posed by Davidson in his thesis.[4]
Davidson attended Winchester College before studying mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1962 and becoming a research fellow there in 1967.[5]
References
- ^ Kendall & Harding (1973); Harding & Kendall (1974)
- ^ Rollo Davidson Trust
- ^ Rollo Davidson Awards
- ^ Kallenberg, Olav (1977), "A counterexample to R. Davidson's conjecture on line processes", Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 82 (2): 301–307, doi:10.1017/S0305004100053949, MR 0451399.
- ^ Obituary
Additional reading
- Kendall, D. G.; Harding, E. F. (1973), Stochastic Analysis: A tribute to the memory of Rollo Davidson, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, London-New York-Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, MR 0350791.
- Harding, E. F.; Kendall, D. G. (1974), Stochastic Geometry: A tribute to the memory of Rollo Davidson, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, London-New York-Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, MR 0350792.
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