Richard J. Elliott

Robert James Elliott (born 1940) is a British-Canadian mathematician, known for his contributions to functional analysis, control theory, game theory, stochastic processes and mathematical finance. He was schooled at Swanwick, Derbyshire and studied mathematics in which he earn a B.A. (1961) and M.A. (1965) at the University of Oxford, as well as a Ph.D (thesis Some results in spectral synthesis advised by John Williamson (mathematician), 1965) a... more

Robert James Elliott (born 1940) is a British-Canadian mathematician, known for his contributions to functional analysis, control theory, game theory, stochastic processes and mathematical finance. He was schooled at Swanwick, Derbyshire and studied mathematics in which he earn a B.A. (1961) and M.A. (1965) at the University of Oxford, as well as a Ph.D (thesis Some results in spectral synthesis advised by John Williamson (mathematician), 1965) and Sc.D. (1983) from University of Cambridge. He taught and conducted research at University of Newcastle (1964), Yale University (1965-66), University of Oxford (1966-68), University of Warwick (1969-73), Northwestern University (1972-73), University of Hull (1973-86), University of Alberta (1985-2001), University of Adelaide (1997-99) and University of Calgary (2001-). less