Mathematician:Stuart Alan Geman

Mathematician

American mathematician, known for influential contributions to computer vision, statistics, probability theory, machine learning, and the neurosciences.

He and his brother Donald Jay 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: March 23, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Publications

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