Donald Lyman Burkholder (January 19, 1927 – April 14, 2013[1]) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales. The Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality is co-named after him. Burkholder spent most of his professional career as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After his retirement in 1998, Donald Burkholder remained a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
- ^ Donald Burkholder (obituary), The News-Gazette, April 17, 2013. Accessed April 17, 2013
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.