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Patrick Billingsley

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Also known as Patrick Paul Billingsley

American mathematician, educator, and stage and film actor (1925-2011)

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Patrick Billingsley was an American mathematician and actor who worked as a university teacher. He specialized in probability theory and held a doctorate. Billingsley was educated at Princeton University and the United States Naval Academy. He served as an employee of the University of Chicago. His doctoral advisor was William Feller, and his doctoral student was William A. Dembski.

Born in Sioux Falls in 1925, Billingsley died in Chicago in 2011 due to disease, with natural causes recorded as the manner of death. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Billingsley spoke and wrote in English.

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  • PROBABILITY AND MEASURE, 3RD EDITION (WILEY SERIES IN PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS)
  • Statistical Inference for Markov Processes (Statistical Research Monograph)
  • Ergodic theory and information
  • Weak convergence of measures
  • Convergence of Probability Measures

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Instance of
human
Given name
Patrick
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Sioux Falls
Place of death
Chicago
Occupation
stage actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Academic degree
doctorate
Doctoral advisor
William Feller
Field of work
probability theory
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Patrick Billingsley
date of birth
1925-05-03
date of death
2011-04-22
cause of death
disease
writing language
English language
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manner of death
natural causes
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