Geoffrey Grimmett

Geoffrey Grimmett ( born December 20 1950) is a British mathematician who deals with probability theory and disordered systems in statistical mechanics, for example, with percolation.

Grimmett went to school in Birmingham and studied at Oxford University, where he graduated in 1971 made ​​and received his doctorate in 1974 at John Hammersley ( and Dominic Welsh ) (Random Fields and Random Graphs ). After that, he was from 1974 to 1976 as an IBM Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. From 1976 he was Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Bristol and from 1992. 1994 to 2000 he was Director of the Statistical Laboratory and 2002-2007 Board of the Faculty of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

In 1989 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize. He is a Trustee of the Rollo Davidson Foundation.

2000 to 2005 he was editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields, and from 2009 of Probability Surveys.

With the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 he was a member of the British team in foil fencing.

Writings

  • Dominic Welsh Probability - an introduction, Oxford University Press 1986
  • Percolation, Springer Verlag, basic teachings of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 321, 2nd edition 1999
  • With David Stirzaker Probability and random processes, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2001
  • With David Stirzaker One thousand exercises in probability, Oxford University Press 2001
  • The random cluster model, basic teachings of Mathematical Sciences, Volume 333, Springer Verlag 2006
  • Probability on graphs, Springer Verlag 2010
  • Percolation, in Jean -Paul Pier ( ed.) Development of Mathematics 1950-2000, Birkhäuser 2000
  • Publisher Dominic Welsh Disorder in physical systems, Oxford University Press, 1990 ( commemorative John Hammersley )
  • Publisher: Probability and phase transitions (NATO Advanced Study Institute, Newton Institute Cambridge, 1993), Springer Verlag 2004
  • Published by Colin McDiarmid: Combinatorics, Complexity and Chance, Oxford University Press 2007 ( Festschrift for Dominic Welsh )
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