Daniel Wyler Stroock (March 20, 1940 – March 13, 2025) https://retirees.mit.edu/in-memoriam/2025 was an American mathematician and probabilist.
Biography Stroock received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder, before joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics faculty in 1984.https://web.archive.org/web/20250401032304/https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=268 He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, for which he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research in 1996.
Stroock was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.MIT Reports to the President 2001–2002, Department of Mathematics, web page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, accessed 21-II-2007.,CV, Daniel W. Stroock, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong web site, accessed 21-II-2007. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.
Selected publications
with S. R. S. Varadhan: ; reprintings 1997, 2006
with Andrzej Korzeniowski: with Jean-Dominique Deuschel: ; reprinting 2001 ; Birkhäuser, 2nd edition 1994;
References
External links Home page for Daniel W. Stroock