Donald Burkholder, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDonald Burkholder
American mathematician
Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1927
Date of Death: 14-Apr-2013
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Donald Burkholder
- Donald Lyman Burkholder (January 19, 1927 – April 14, 2013) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to probability theory, particularly the theory of martingales.
- The Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality is co-named after him.
- Burkholder spent most of his professional career as a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- After his retirement in 1998, Donald Burkholder remained a professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- He was a member of the U.S.
- National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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