Mathematician:Donald Jay Geman

Mathematician

American applied mathematician and a leading researcher in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition.

He and his brother Stuart Alan Geman are famous for proposing the Gibbs Sampler, and for the first proof of the convergence of the Simulated Annealing Algorithm.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: September 20, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Publications

• 1984: Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images (with Stuart Geman)