Person
Cohn, Harry I. (1940 - 2021)
- Born
- 27 July 1940
Bucharest, Romania - Died
- 7 May 2021
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and University Administrator
Summary
Harry Cohn was a mathematician noted for his expertise in probability theory and random processes, including branching processes and products of random matrices with connections to ergodic properties. He was particularly noted for his significant contributions to the theory of Markov chains, non-homogenous Markov chains and simulated annealing. After 12 years lecturing in mathematics in Romania and Israel, Cohn was appointed Lecturer at the Australian National University in 1975. He was Reader in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne from 1978 until his retirement in 2003.
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Chronology
- 1963 - 1970
- Career position - Lecturer, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy of Sciences
- 1966
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Bucharest, Romania
- 1970 - 1974
- Career position - Lecturer, Technicon - Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- 1974 - 1975
- Career position - Lecturer, Haifa University, Israel
- 1975 - 1978
- Career position - Lecturer, Australian National University
- 1978 - 2003
- Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Melbourne
- 1988 - 2021
- Award - Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1989 - 1992
- Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne
- 2003
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Klebaner, Fima, 'Harry I. Cohn 27 July 1940 - 7 May 2021', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 48 (5) (2021), 228-9, https://imstat.org/2021/12/15/obituary-harry-cohn-1940-2021/. Details
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Created: 3 February 2022, Last modified: 14 August 2023