Churchill Professor of Mathematics of Information

The Churchill Professorship of Mathematics of Information (known until November 2022 as the Churchill Professorship of Mathematics for Operational Research[1]) is a professorship in the mathematics of information at the University of Cambridge.[2] It was established in 1966 by a benefaction from Esso in memory of Sir Winston Churchill, who died the previous year, for the promotion of the study of operations research. This was the second professorship established within the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory (the first being the Professorship of Mathematical Statistics).[3]

  1. ^ Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge, 2023; The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (link), page 705
  2. ^ Statutes and Ordinances of University of Cambridge
  3. ^ Whittle, P., The Cambridge Statistical Laboratory up to 1993 (revised 2002), archived from the original on 2013-12-19, retrieved 2009-04-23