Professor
Leonard Gross
Cornell University
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2004
Professor of Mathematics. Contributed to the interface between mathematics and physics. Devised the rigorous framework for white noise analysis that is used throughout probability and its applications. Created and explored logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and their relations to hypercontractivity, tools now applied far from their origins in constructive field theories.
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