Doug Lind is an American mathematician specializing in
ergodic theory and
dynamical systems. He is a professor emeritus at the
University of Washington
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. Lind was named as one of the inaugural fellows of the
American Mathematical Society
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in 2013. He is a board member of
Spectra, an association for LGBT mathematicians.
Education
Lind received his PhD from
Stanford University in 1973. His advisor was
Donald Samuel Ornstein
Donald Samuel Ornstein (born July 30, 1934, New York) is an American mathematician working in the area of ergodic theory. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957 under the guidance of Irving Kaplansky. During his career at ...
and the title of his dissertation was ''Locally Compact Measure Preserving Flows''.
See also
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Daniel Rudolph - contemporary of Doug Lind
References
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
LGBT mathematicians
University of Washington faculty
American LGBT academics
21st-century American LGBT people
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