Mathematician:William Parry

Mathematician

English mathematician who worked in dynamical systems, and, in particular, ergodic theory.

In particular, he studied subshifts of finite type nilflows.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 3 July 1934 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Died: 20 August 2006 in Marton, Warwickshire, UK

Theorems and Definitions

• Parry-Daniels Map (with Henry Ellis Daniels)
• Parry-Sullivan Invariant (with Dennis Parnell Sullivan)
• Parry Measure

Publications

• 1990: Zeta Functions and the Periodic Orbit Structure of Hyperbolic Dynamics (with Mark Pollicott)

Also known as

Usually referred to as Bill Parry.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Parry": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive