K. L. Chung

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/K._L._Chung
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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Tsinghua_University
gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Leroy_P._Steele_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1917-09-19
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Hangzhou,_China
gptkbp:deathDate 2009-06-01
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Palo_Alto,_California,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Joseph_L._Doob
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Cornell_University
gptkb:Institute_for_Advanced_Study
gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:probability_theory
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Kai_Lai_Chung
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label K. L. Chung
gptkbp:knownFor contributions to probability theory
work on Brownian motion
work on Markov chains
Chung's lemma
Chung–Fuchs theorem
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Academia_Sinica
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:Chinese
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:publishedWork A Course in Probability Theory
Green, Brown, and Probability
Markov Chains with Stationary Transition Probabilities
Elementary Probability Theory with Stochastic Processes
gptkbp:spouse Mabel Chung
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Limit_Distributions_for_Sums_of_Independent_Random_Variables
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8