Patrick Billingsley, American mathematician and actor died he was , 85.

Patrick Billingsley  was an American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics died he was , 85.

(May 3, 1925 – April 22, 2011)

After earning a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in 1955, he became a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair from 1980 to 1983 and retired in 1994. In 1983 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was given the Lester R. Ford Award for his article "Prime Numbers and Brownian Motion".^[3]
He starred in a number of plays at Court Theatre and Body Politic Theatre in Chicago and appeared in at least nine movies.^[4]
In 1978 he told the Chicago Tribune Magazine, "As a teacher you’re used to being on stage."

Stage plays

• We Bombed in New Haven (1970)
• The Tempest (1977)
• Equus (1980)
• The Birthday Party (1978 and 1985)

Films

• The Fury (1978)
• My Bodyguard (1980)
• Somewhere in Time (1980)
• The Untouchables (1987)

Books

• Statistical Inference for Markov Processes (1961)
• Ergodic Theory and Information (1965)
• Convergence of Probability Measures (1968)
• The Elements of Statistical Inference

Notes and references

1.       ^ Mathematician-Actor Patrick Billingsley Dies at 85

2.       ^ Patrick Billingsley, probability theorist and actor, 1925–2011

3.       ^ Patrick Billingsley, "Prime Numbers and Brownian Motion", American Mathematical Monthly, volume 80, pages 1099–1115, 1973

4.       ^ Internet Movie Database page on Patrick Billingsley

 

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