Peter Whittle Scientist

Peter Whittle (born 27 February 1927, in Wellington, New Zealand) is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.

Personal facts

Birth date	February 27, 1927
Birth place	Wellington , New Zealand
Citizenship	New Zealand
Residence	England , Cambridge
Education	University of New Zealand Uppsala University
Known for	Multivariate statistics Statistical hypothesis testing Time series Flow network Reproducing kernel Hilbert space Queueing theory Optimal control Bayesian experimental design Optimal design

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Scientist

awards	John von Neumann Theory Prize Royal Society Guy Medal Frederick W. Lanchester Prize Sylvester Medal Royal Society of New Zealand
doctoral advisor	Herman Wold
doctoral student	John Kingman Frank Kelly (mathematician) Alan John Branford David Eric Probert Mario Lefebvre Roland Tegeder Stratis Kounias
Field of study	Control theory Statistics Operations research Applied mathematics
influenced	Karl Gustav Jöreskog
influenced by	Matérn covariance function M. S. Bartlett