Some Biographical Information about Bert Fristedt
[This page was last updated on June 6, 2005.]
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Grade school in Glen Lake, Minnesota; graduated from
Hopkins High School, Hopkins, Minnesota in 1955
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B.S., Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Campus, 1959
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PhD in mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA, 1963
- From 1963-present: in Twin Cities on mathematics faculty
at University of Minnesota, except for three years---one each at:
(i) Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota;
(ii) University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; (iii) Liverpool University,
Liverpool, England.
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Coauthor of two books:
- `A Modern Approach to Probability Theory',
with Lawrence Gray, a probability textbook for
graduate students in mathematics, statistics, economics, and
engineering; [Solutions, answers, or hints for the exercises with
asterisks can be obtained from the down-loadable files:
pdf file of solutions and
postscript file of solutions . Errata as of Nov 20, 2000
can be obtained from the down-loadable files:
pdf file of errata and
postscript file of errata .]
- `Bandit Problems, Sequential Allocation of Experiments',
with Donald A. Berry, a research monograph
with a catchy adjective in the title, an adjective
which is often used to
identify certain types of problems in sequential decision theory,
a subfield of statistics.
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Author of several research papers in probability theory
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Teacher of a wide variety of mathematics courses at the University of
Minnesota---wide variety in the sense of:
- many different topics;
- many different levels;
- many
different types of students for which courses are intended.
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Teacher in special summer problem-solving programs
both for in-service high school
and middle school teachers and for high school and middle school
students
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Holder of the title: Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Member of the Academic Standards Committee that constructed
in Minnesota K-12 mathematics standards and benchmarks
approved in Spring 2003
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