Bill Parry (mathematician)

William Parry ( born July 3, 1934 in Coventry, † August 20 2006 in Marton, Warwickshire ) was a British mathematician who was concerned with dynamical systems and ergodic theory.

Parry came from a family of steel workers, and he kept all his life socialist beliefs (until the Hungarian uprising, he was also a member of the Communist Party ). He studied at University College London, the University of Liverpool ( master's degree ) and at Imperial College, London, where he obtained his doctorate at Yael Dowker 1960. He was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham ( 1960-1965 ) and the University of Sussex and in 1968 Reader at the University of Warwick and Professor in 1970 the newly founded. 1984-1986 he headed the mathematics faculty. He died of cancer.

The Parry -Daniels map that Parry - Sullivan invariant and the Parry measure named in the theory of dynamical systems after him.

In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Ergodic theory of G -spaces ). In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

His doctoral include Mary Rees and Mark Pollicott.

He was married and had a daughter.

Writings

• Entropy and generators in ergodic theory, Benjamin 1969
• Selim Tuncel: Classification problems in ergodic theory, Cambridge University Press 1982
• With Mark Pollicott: Zeta functions and the periodic orbit structure of hyperbolic dynamics, Societé Mathématique de France, 1990
• Topics in ergodic theory, Cambridge University Press 1981
• Intrinsic Markov chains, Trans Amer. Math Soc. 112 (1964), 55-66