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Donald Samuel Ornstein (born 1934)[1] is an American mathematician working in the area of ergodic theory. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957 under the guidance of Irving Kaplansky. During his career at Stanford University he supervised the Ph. D. thesis of twenty three students
He is most famous for his work on the isomorphism of Bernoulli shifts for which he won the 1974 Bôcher Prize. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1981.
References and notes
- ^ https://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterO.pdf PDF; 132 KB, retrieved on 28 December 2008
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