Peter Whittle (mathematician)

For the British politician, see Peter Whittle (politician).

Peter Whittle
Born(1927-02-27)27 February 1927
Wellington, New Zealand
Died10 August 2021(2021-08-10) (aged 94)
Alma materUniversity of New Zealand (MSc 1948)
Uppsala University (PhD 1953)
Known forMultivariate Wold theorem in time series analysis
Reproducing kernel Hilbert space techniques
Whittle likelihood
Hypothesis testing in time series analysis
Optimal control
Queuing theory
Network flows
Kiefer-Wolfowitz theorem in Bayesian experimental design
SpouseKäthe Blomquist (m. 1951)
Children6
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (UK) (1978)
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Guy Medal (Silver, 1966) (Gold, 1996)
Sylvester Medal (1994)
John von Neumann Theory Prize (1997)
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1986)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Applied mathematics
Operations research
Control theory
InstitutionsUppsala University (1949–1953)
DSIR, New Zealand (1953–1959)
University of Cambridge (1959–1961)
University of Manchester (1961–1967)
University of Cambridge (1967–1994)
Thesis Hypothesis Testing in Time Series Analysis  (1951)
Doctoral advisorHerman Wold
Doctoral studentsFrank Kelly
Sir John Kingman (initial studies)
Other notable studentsSir John Kingman

Peter Whittle (27 February 1927[1] – 10 August 2021[2]) was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.[1][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference nzms was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference kelly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference history6 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).