Mark Pinsky

Mark A. Pinsky (July 15, 1940 – December 8, 2016) was Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He studied probability theory, stochastic processes, and harmonic analysis.

His published works include 125 research papers and ten books, including several conference proceedings and textbooks. His 2002 book, Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets, has been translated into Spanish.

Biography Pinsky was at Northwestern beginning in 1968, following a two-year postdoctoral position at Stanford.

Academic memberships and services Pinsky was a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Mathematical Association of America, and has provided services for Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), most recently as Consulting Editor for the AMS. He served on the Executive Committee of MSRI for the period 1996–2000.

Pinsky was an invited speaker at the meeting to honor Stanley Zietz in Philadelphia at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, on 20 March 2008.

Pinsky was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Mathematical works His early work was directed toward generalizations of the central limit theorem, known as random evolution, on which he wrote a monograph in 1991. At the same time he became interested in differential equations with noise, computing the Lyapunov exponents of various stochastic differential equations. His many interests include classical harmonic analysis and stochastic Riemannian geometry. The Pinsky phenomenon, a term coined by J.P. Kahane, has become a popular topic for research in harmonic analysis.

In 2008, the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University received a private donation from Mark and Joanna Pinsky to endow an annual lecture series.

Selected publications Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets (Brooks/Cole Series in Advanced Mathematics), 2002, Fourier series of radial functions in several variables Pointwise Fourier inversion and related eigenfunction expansions Eigenfunction expansions with general boundary conditions Pointwise Fourier Inversion-A Wave Equation Approach A generalized Kolmogorov for the Hilbert transform

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