Warren Ambrose

Warren Ambrose
Born(1914-10-25)October 25, 1914
DiedDecember 4, 1995(1995-12-04) (aged 81)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known forAmbrose–Singer holonomy theorem[3]
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1947)
Scientific career
Fieldsdifferential geometry, partial differential equations, probability theory
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Buenos Aires
Thesis Some Properties of Measurable Stochastic Processes[1][2]  (1939)
Doctoral advisorJoseph L. Doob

Warren Arthur Ambrose (October 25, 1914 – December 4, 1995) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Buenos Aires.

He was born in Virden, Illinois in 1914. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1935, his master's in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1939, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[4]

  1. ^ Ambrose, Warren (1939). Some properties of measurable stochastic processes.
  2. ^ Ambrose, Warren (1940). "On measurable stochastic processes". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (1): 66–79. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1940-0000918-4. ISSN 0002-9947. (abridged and edition version of 1939 dissertation)
  3. ^ Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 75, No. 3, (Nov., 1953), pp. 428-443
  4. ^ "Professor Emeritus Warren Ambrose dies at 81 - MIT News Office". Web.mit.edu. 1996-01-10. Retrieved 2012-09-28.