Andrey Feuerverger: Brief Bio

Andrey Feuerverger was born in Prague. He holds a B.Sc. ("Honours" Mathematics) from McGill University (where he also took many courses in physics, and had to choose between Mathematics, and English Literature - a long story), and a Ph.D. (Statistics) from the University of California at Berkeley (where he had to choose between Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics - also a long story).

He is currently Professor Emeritus of the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Over the years he has visited numerous universities and research facilities, including A.E.C.L., A.T.&T./Bell-Labs, The Australian National University, U.C. Berkeley, Univ J. Fourier & I.N.R.I.A. at Grenoble, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stanford University, University of Sydney, and Tel Aviv University, and he has given conference and seminar presentations at many venues. (An abbreviated list includes Banff, Boston, Chicago, China, Columbia, Cornell, Greece, Italy, Oberwolfach, Prague, San Diego, Spain, Tokyo, and Zurich.)

He has always had broad research interests primarily (but not exclusively) in statistical theory and applications, and has authored over fifty refereed scientific publications. He has also taught a wide variety of courses in statistics at every imaginable level and class size.

More recently he has immersed himself fully in the splendours of analytic and probabilistic number theory (not to mention its connections to probability theory, as well as to statistics) and has spent some 15 years on a major writing and research project culminating in the book Randomness and the Riemann Hypothesis: Probability, Statistics, and the Primes, by Andrey Feuerverger and Greg Martin. American Mathematical Society, 2026, 446+xiii pages. For the Table of Contents and Preface, click here.