Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Sterling professor of Mathematics at
Yale University
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. Coifman earned a doctorate from the
University of Geneva
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in 1965, supervised by
Jovan Karamata
Jovan Karamata ( sr-cyr, Јован Карамата; February 1, 1902 – August 14, 1967) was a Serbian mathematician. He is remembered for contributions to analysis, in particular, the Tauberian theory and the theory of slowly varying function ...
.
Coifman is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, the
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
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, and the
National Academy of Sciences
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. He is a recipient of the 1996
DARPA
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Originally known as the Adv ...
Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999
National Medal of Science
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.
In 2013, he co-founded
ThetaRay, a
cyber security
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and
big data analytics
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company.
In 2018, he received the
Rolf Schock Prize
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for Mathematics.
References
External links
Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal With It Wired
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Israeli Jews
Israeli mathematicians
Yale University faculty
National Medal of Science laureates
1941 births
Israeli emigrants to the United States
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