{{short description|Dutch mathematician}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Johannes Kemperman | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date |1924|7|16|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Amsterdam]] | death_date = {{death date and age |2011|6|13 |1924|7|16|mf=y}} | death_place = [[East Brunswick, New Jersey]] | fields = [[Mathematics]]<br>[[Statistics]] | workplaces = [[University of Rochester]]<br>[[Purdue University]]<br>[[Rutgers University]] | alma_mater = [[University of Amsterdam]] | doctoral_advisor = [[David van Dantzig]] <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | doctoral_students ={{plainlist|1= *[[Edgar Acuna]] *[[Leonard Mirman]] *[[Martha Siegel]] }} | known_for = | awards = }}
'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bulletin.imstat.org/2012/02/obituary-johannes-kemperman-1924%E2%80%932011/ |title=Obituary: Johannes Kemperman, 1924–2011 |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122737/http://bulletin.imstat.org/2012/02/obituary-johannes-kemperman-1924%E2%80%932011/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Born in [[Amsterdam]], he received his education from the [[University of Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Naus |first=Joseph I. |title=A conversation with Johannes H. B. Kemperman |journal=Statist. Sci. |volume=15 |issue=4 |year=2000 |pages=396–408 |url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213005 |doi=10.1214/ss/1009213005|doi-access=free }}</ref>
== Selected publications == * {{Cite book | doi = 10.1007/BFb0079123| chapter = On the optimum rate of transmitting information| title = Probability and Information Theory| volume = 89| pages = 126–169| series = Lecture Notes in Mathematics| year = 1969| last1 = Kemperman | first1 = J. H. B.| isbn = 978-3-540-04608-0| url = http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoms/1177697293}} * {{Cite journal| last = Kemperman| first = J. H. B.| title = A Wiener–Hopf Type Method for a General Random Walk with a Two-Sided Boundary| journal = [[Annals of Mathematical Statistics]]| volume = 34| issue = 4| year = 1963| pages = 1168–1193| jstor = 2238330| doi=10.1214/aoms/1177703855| doi-access = free}} * {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1007/BF02546525| title = On small sumsets in an abelian group| journal = Acta Mathematica| volume = 103| issue = 1–2| pages = 63–88| year = 1960| last1 = Kemperman | first1 = J. H. B.| doi-access = free}}
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