Richard M. Dudley

Richard Mansfield Dudley (July 28, 1938 – January 19, 2020)[1] was Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born on July 28, 1938 in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his PhD at Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Edward Nelson and Gilbert Hunt. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1958.

He has published over a hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written several books. His specialty is probability theory and statistics, especially empirical processes.

He is often noted for his results on the so-called Dudley entropy integral.[2][3][4] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Books

• Dudley, R.M. (1989). Real Analysis and Probability. Chapman & Hall.
• Dudley, R.M. (1999). Uniform Central Limit Theorems. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 63. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Dudley, R.M.; R. Norvaisa; J. Qian (1999). "Differentiability of Six Operators on Nonsmooth Functions and P-Variation". Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag.
• Dudley, R.M. (1984). A Course on Empirical Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag.

References

1. "Richard Dudley, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 81". MIT News. February 18, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
2. Dudley, R. M. (1967). "The sizes of compact subsets of Hilbert space and continuity of Gaussian processes". Journal of Functional Analysis. 1 (3): 290–330. doi:10.1016/0022-1236(67)90017-1.
3. Dudley, R. M. (1999). Uniform Central Limit Theorems. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 63. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
4. "Exposition of statistical learning theory"., including Dudley's entropy integral.
5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.

• R. S. Wenocur and R. M. Dudley, "Some special Vapnik–Chervonenkis classes," Discrete Mathematics, vol. 33, pp. 313–318, 1981.

External links

• Publications from Google Scholar.
• A Conversation with Dick Dudley