Some Biographical Information about Bert Fristedt

• Grade school in Glen Lake, Minnesota; graduated from Hopkins High School, Hopkins, Minnesota in 1955
• B.S., Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, 1959
• 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.
• Coauthor of three books:
  1. `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 .]
  2. `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.
  3. `Filtering and Prediction:, A Primer', with Naresh Jain and Nicolai Krylov, a higher-level undergraduate textbook on the area of probability theory identified in the title of the book.
• Author of several research papers in probability theory
• Teacher of a wide variety of mathematics courses at the University of Minnesota---wide variety in the sense of:
  1. many different topics;
  2. many different levels;
  3. many different types of students for which courses are intended.
• At various times in the past, 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
• Holder of the title: Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor
• Member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel whose final report was submitted to the US Secretary of Education in March 2008, along with the reports of the 5 Task Groups and 3 Subcommittees. I was a member of the Assessment Task Group and the Instructional Materials Subcommittee.

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