Nicholas Hugh Bingham (born 19 March 1945 in York) is a British mathematician working in the field of probability theory, stochastic analysis and analysis more generally.

Education and career

Bingham is currently a Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, and is a Visiting Professor at both the London School of Economics and the University of Liverpool. After undergraduate studies in mathematics at Trinity College, Oxford, where he achieved a first class honours degree, he was a research student at

Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

, where he obtained his PhD in 1969 under the supervision of David George Kendall. In 1996 he also obtained a ScD from the University of Cambridge. He serves as Associate Editor of ''

Expositiones Mathematicae ''Expositiones Mathematicae'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics, mathematical scientific journal, journal. The journal was established in 1983. It has been published by Elsevier since 2001. It is published 4 times a year and is edited by Robert C. Da ...

'' and Obituaries Editor of the

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical S ...

. With C.M. Goldie and Jozef L. Teugels, Bingham wrote the book ''Regular Variation''; with Rüdiger Kiesel ''Risk-neutral Valuation: Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives''; with J. M. Fry ''Regression''.

Personal life

Bingham is married to Cecilie (m. 1980). They have 3 children: James (1982), Ruth (1985), and Tom (1993). He is a competitive runner, with a best marathon time of 2:46:52 in the 1991 Abingdon Marathon, aged 46. He is a member of Barnet and District AC.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bingham, Nicholas 1945 births Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge English mathematicians Living people Probability theorists Mathematical statisticians People from York Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of Imperial College London