Johannes Kemperman

Johannes Kemperman
Born	(1924-07-16)July 16, 1924 Amsterdam
Died	June 13, 2011(2011-06-13) (aged 86) East Brunswick, New Jersey
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Statistics
Institutions	University of Rochester Purdue University Rutgers University
Doctoral advisor	David van Dantzig
Doctoral students	Edgar Acuna Leonard Mirman Martha Siegel

Johannes Henricus Bernardus Kemperman (July 16, 1924 – June 13, 2011) was a Dutch mathematician. He taught at the University of Rochester for 25 years, and also worked at Purdue University and Rutgers University for ten years, each.

Born in Amsterdam, he received his education from the University of Amsterdam.

Selected publications

• Kemperman, J. H. B. (1969). "On the optimum rate of transmitting information". Probability and Information Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 89. pp. 126–169. doi:10.1007/BFb0079123. ISBN 978-3-540-04608-0.
• Kemperman, J. H. B. (1963). "A Wiener–Hopf Type Method for a General Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34 (4): 1168–1193. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177703855. JSTOR 2238330.
• Kemperman, J. H. B. (1960). "On small sumsets in an abelian group". Acta Mathematica. 103 (1–2): 63–88. doi:10.1007/BF02546525.

External links

• Johannes Kemperman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project