Albert Shiryaev Explained

Albert Shiryaev
Birth Name:	Albert Nikolaevich Shiryaev
Birth Date:	October 12, 1934
Birth Place:	Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Field:	Mathematician
Work Institution:	Moscow State University Steklov Institute of Mathematics University of Manchester
Alma Mater:	Moscow State University
Doctoral Advisor:	Andrey Kolmogorov
Known For:	Probability theory
Prizes:	Markov Prize (1974), Kolmogorov Prize (1994)

Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (Russian: Альбе́рт Никола́евич Ширя́ев; born October 12, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics.

Career

He graduated from Moscow State University in 1957. From that time until now he has been working in Steklov Mathematical Institute. He earned his candidate degree in 1961 (Andrey Kolmogorov was his advisor) and a doctoral degree in 1967 for his work "On statistical sequential analysis". He is a professor of the department of mechanics and mathematics of Moscow State University, since 1971. Shiryaev holds a 20% permanent professorial position at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He has supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations and is the author or coauthor of more than 250 publications.

In 1970 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Sur les equations stochastiques aux dérivées partielles at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Nice. In 1978 he was a Plenary Speaker with talk Absolute Continuity and Singularity of Probability Measures in Functional Spaces at the ICM in Helsinki.^[1]

He was elected in 1985 an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society and in 1990 a member of Academia Europaea.^[2] From 1989 to 1991 he was the president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. From 1994 to 1998 he was the president of the Russian Actuarial Society. In 1996 he was awarded a Humboldt Prize. He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997 and a full member in 2011. From 1998 to 1999 he was a founding member and the first president of the Bachelier Finance Society. He was made in 2000 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and in 2002 Professor Honoris Causa of the University of Amsterdam.^[3] In 2017 he was awarded the Chebyschev gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.^[4]

Contributions

His scientific work concerns different aspects of probability theory, statistics and its applications. He has contributions to:

Nonlinear theory of stationary stochastic processes
Problems of fast detection of random effects (Kolmogorov Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994)
Problems of optimal nonlinear filtration, stochastic differential equations (A.N. Markov Prize of USSR Academy of Sciences, 1974)
Problems of stochastic optimization, including "Optimal stopping rules"
Problems of general stochastic theory and martingale theory
Problems of stochastic finance (monograph "The Essentials of Stochastic Finance", English and Russian editions)

Publications

Book: Optimal Stopping Rules. 1978. Springer-Verlag. 9783540740100 .
- Statistical sequential analysis: optimal stopping rules. American Mathematical Society 1976 (Russian 1969), new edition entitled Optimal Stopping Rules, Springer 1978, 2008
with Robert Liptser: Statistics of random processes. 2 vols., Springer, 1977/1978, 1981; 2nd edition 2013, vol. 1
with P. Greenwood: Contiguity and Statistical Invariance Principle. Gordon and Breach, 1985
with R. Liptser: Theory of Martingales. Kluwer 1986; 2012 edition
Book: Probability. 2nd.

translated by R. P. Boas

. 2013. Springer. 9781475725391 . ; 1st Russian edition 1980; 2nd Russian edition 1989, 2004
- Wahrscheinlichkeit (= Hochschulbücher für Mathematik. vol. 91). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00195-9 (English: Probability, Springer 1984, 1996)
with Jean Jacod: Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes. Springer, 1994; 2nd edition 2013
Book: Essentials of Stochastic Finance: Facts, Models, Theory. 1999. World Scientific Publishing. 9789810236052 .
with V. Spokoiny: Statistical Experiments and Decision. World Scientific 2000
with A. V. Bulinsky: Theory of Stochastic Processes. A course of lectures. Moscow 2003 (in Russian)
From "Disorder" to Nonlinear Filtering and Martingale Theory. In: Bolibruch, Osipov, Sinai (eds.): Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century. Springer 2006, pp. 371–397 (translated by R. Cooke)
with Ole Barndorff-Nielsen: Book: Change of Time and Change of Measure. 2nd. 2015. World Scientific Publishing. 9789814678605. ^[5] 1st edition 2010
Book: Problems in Probability. 2016. Springer. 9783764324193.

External links

Notes and References

Shiryaev, A. N. "Absolute continuity and singularity of probability measures in functional spaces." In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, pp. 209-225. 1978.
Web site: Albert N. Shiryaev. Academia Europaea.
Web site: Albert N. Shiryaev. Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage.
Web site: Russian Academy of Sciences. Золотая медаль имени П.Л. Чебышев (list of winners of the Chebyshev medal).
Book: Change of Time and Change of Measure. 10.1142/9609. Advanced Series on Statistical Science & Applied Probability. 2015. 21. World Scientific . 978-981-4678-58-2.