Johannes Kemperman Explained

Johannes Kemperman
Birth Date:	July 16, 1924
Birth Place:	Amsterdam
Death Place:	East Brunswick, New Jersey
Nationality:	Dutch
Fields:	Mathematics Statistics
Workplaces:	University of Rochester Purdue University Rutgers University
Alma Mater:	University of Amsterdam
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Doctoral Students:	Edgar Acuna Leonard Mirman Martha Siegel

Johannes Henricus Bernardus Kemperman (July 16, 1924 – June 13, 2011) was a Dutch mathematician. He taught at the University of Rochester for 25 years, and also worked at Purdue University and Rutgers University for ten years, each.^[1]

Born in Amsterdam, he received his education from the University of Amsterdam.^[2]

Selected publications

Book: 10.1007/BFb0079123. On the optimum rate of transmitting information. Probability and Information Theory. 89. 126–169. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1969. Kemperman . J. H. B.. 978-3-540-04608-0.
Kemperman. J. H. B.. A Wiener–Hopf Type Method for a General Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary. Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 34. 4. 1963. 1168–1193. 2238330. 10.1214/aoms/1177703855. free.
10.1007/BF02546525. On small sumsets in an abelian group. Acta Mathematica. 103. 1–2. 63–88. 1960. Kemperman . J. H. B.. free.

Web site: Obituary: Johannes Kemperman, 1924–2011 . 2015-03-30 . 2015-04-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122737/http://bulletin.imstat.org/2012/02/obituary-johannes-kemperman-1924%E2%80%932011/ . dead .
Naus . Joseph I. . A conversation with Johannes H. B. Kemperman . Statist. Sci. . 15 . 4 . 2000 . 396–408 . 10.1214/ss/1009213005. free .