Wendell Fleming

Wendell Helms Fleming ( b. 1928 in Guthrie, Oklahoma) is an American mathematician who deals with geometric analysis and stochastics.

Fleming was born in 1951 in Laurence Young at the University of Wisconsin -Madison PhD ( Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces ). Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he is currently (2009) Professor Emeritus.

Fleming was with Herbert Federer, a pioneer of geometric measure theory. Later he worked on stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations and its application in control theory.

From 1976 to 1977 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1982 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Warsaw (Optimal control of Markov Processes) and in 1970 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Nice (Optimal Stochastic Control). In 1987 he received the Leroy P. Steele with Federer Prize of the American Mathematical Society. In 1994 he received the Reid Prize of the SIAM. He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University ( 1991). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Raymond W. Rishel: Deterministic and stochastic optimal control, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1975, ISBN 3-540-90155-8
• Functions of several variables, Addison -Wesley, 1965, Springer, 1977
• Halil Mete Soner with: Controlled Markov Processes and Viscosity Solutions, Springer, 1992, 2nd edition 2006