Yuan-Shih Chow

Yuan-Shih Chow
周元燊
Born(1924-09-01)September 1, 1924
Xiangfan, Hubei Province, Republic of China
DiedMarch 3, 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 97)
Hubei Province, China
EducationNational Chekiang University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Known forOptimal stopping
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
WorkplacesNational Taiwan University
IBM
Purdue University
Columbia University
ThesisThe Theory of Martingales in an S-Finite Measure Space Indexed by Directed Sets (1958)
Joseph Leo Doob
Other academic advisors
Abraham Taub

Yuan-Shih Chow (Chinese: 周元燊; pinyin: Zhōu Yuánshēn; 1 September 1924 – 3 March 2022), also known as Y. S. Chow or Zhou Yuanshen, was a Chinese and American mathematician and probabilist. He was a professor of statistics at Columbia University.

Chow served as director-general of the Institute of Mathematics at Academia Sinica and as director of the Center of Applied Statistics at Nankai University. He was an academician of the Academia Sinica.

Life

Chow was born in Zhouwan Village, Zhangnan County, Xiangfan, Hubei Province, China. He entered the (National) Hechuan No. 2 Middle School (合川国立二中). But because of the Japanese invasion, he left his hometown and finished his high school education in Chongqing - the capital of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He became a student of the Department of Mathematics, National Chekiang University (now Zhejiang University) and he was a student of Su Buqing. About 1949, he went to Taiwan and taught Mathematics at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.

In July 1954, following the advice of Chung Tao Yang, Chow went to USA. He entered the University of Illinois and studied under the guidance of Joseph Leo Doob. In 1958, he received his PhD. After postdoctoral research with Abraham Taub at the University of Illinois, he became a staff member at the IBM Watson Research Laboratory and became a member of the research staff. Chow started teaching at Columbia University in 1961 as an assistant professor. From 1962 to 1968, he served in the Statistics Department, Purdue University, where he was promoted from associate professor to full professor. He returned to Columbia University in1968, where he was the Professor of Mathematical Statistics, and worked there until his retirement in 1993. During this period, Chow was also a visiting professor at different universities including the University of California at Berkeley, the National Central University in Taiwan, the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He was Professor Emeritus, Columbia University.

Chow died in Hubei province on 3 March 2022, at the age of 97.

Membership

Books by Yuan-Shih Chow

References

  1. 1 2 Ying, Zhiliang; Zhang, Cun-Hui (2022). "Obituary: Yuan Shih Chow 1924–2022". Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  2. ↑ Chao Hsiung, Agnes; Zhang, Cun-hui; Ying, Zhiliang, eds. (6 December 2006). Random Walk, Sequential Analysis And Related Topics: A Festschrift In Honor Of Yuan-shih Chow (E-Book). World Scientific Publishing Company. p. 5. ISBN 9789814476652. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  3. ↑ 周元燊[permanent dead link] "1924年9月1日出生于南漳周湾村，1941年考取在合川的国立第二中学，二中毕业後，保送贵州的国立浙江大学数学系..."
  4. ↑ A Conversation with Yuan Shih Chow "Taiwan, he taught mathematics as an assistant at National Taiwan University until he came to the United States in 1954."
  5. ↑ "In Memoriam: Y. S. Chow (1924–2022)". Columbia University Department of Statistics. 9 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Academician Yuan-Shih Chow Has Passed Away". Academia Sinica. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  7. ↑ 著名数学家——周元燊院士 Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine "中央研究院院士（第十届 1974年）"
  8. ↑ "Y. S. Chow was a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a member of the International Statistical Institute and a member of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica." from
  9. ↑ "Yuan-Shih Chow 周元燊". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  10. ↑ Yuan-Shih Chow; Teicher, Henry (1978). Probability Theory: Independence Interchangeability Martingales. Springer-Verlag New York. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-0062-5. ISBN 978-1-4684-0064-9. LCCN 78021693. OL 13589527W. Wikidata Q133274380.
  11. ↑ Yuan-Shih Chow; Teicher, Henry (1997). Probability Theory: Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales. Springer Texts in Statistics (3rd ed.). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1950-7. ISBN 978-0-387-98228-1. LCCN 97009299. OCLC 36543424. Zbl 0891.60002. Wikidata Q133274395.
  12. ↑ Yuan-Shih Chow; Robbins, Herbert; Siegmund, David Oliver (1971). Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-05314-5. LCCN 78155247. Wikidata Q133274335.