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词条 Charles Brenner (mathematician)
释义

  1. Anecdotes

  2. References

For other persons named Charles Brenner, see Charles Brenner (disambiguation).

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| name = Charles Brenner
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|3|18}}
| birth_place = Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Stanford University (BS)
UCLA (Ph.D.)
| thesis_title = Asymptotics of Partition Functions
| thesis_year = 1984
| doctoral_advisors = Basil Gordon[1]
Ernst Straus
| other_names =
| known_for = APL implementation, forensic mathematics
| website = {{URL|https://dna-view.com}}
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Charles Hallam Brenner is an American mathematician who is the originator of forensic mathematics.

His father Joel Lee Brenner was a professor of mathematics and his mother Frances Hallam Brenner was a city councilor and briefly mayor of Palo Alto, California. His uncle Charles Brenner, MD was a psychiatrist.

Brenner received a BS from Stanford University in 1967 and a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1984.[1][2]

Brenner participated in the implementation of APL\\360 and APL\\1130,[3]

and implemented the transpose and rotate primitive functions.[4]

More recently, Brenner specializes in the use of mathematics in DNA analysis.[5]

His principal areas of interest and achievement in the mathematics of forensic DNA are kinship, rare haplotype matching, and DNA mixtures.

In a couple of Y haplotype papers, most recently,[6]

he showed why Y haplotypes must be much rarer, and how much rarer, than their sample frequency in a reference population sample.

Brenner’s Symbolic Kinship Program,[7]

which can for example assess the identification evidence based on DNA profiles

from an anonymous body and an arbitrary set of presumed relatives,

has been widely used in mass victim identification projects,

including identifying about 1/3 of the identified World Trade Center bodies.[8][9]

Brenner played a key role in the resolution of the Larry Hillblom inheritance case, resulting in four Amerasian children each receiving $50 million.[10]

Anecdotes

  • Between 1968 and 1973, Brenner lived in London, U.K. and supported himself by playing bridge professionally.[5][11]
  • There is a family legend that Charles’s older sister once sat on Albert Einstein’s lap, possibly at a lecture or gathering at the IAS attended by both Einstein and Charles’s father, with daughter in tow.[12] His father was teaching in Princeton at the time.
  • Brenner asked Gordon, his advisor, “How far can you get in mathematics without being smart?”
    “Quite far,” he said.[13]

References

1. ^{{cite thesis|degree=Ph.D.|first=Charles Hallam|last=Brenner|title=Asymptotics of Partition Functions|publisher=UCLA|date=1984 |url=https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=48703}}
2. ^{{cite journal|author=Brenner, C.H.|date=November 1986|title=Asymptotic Analogs of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities in Number Theory|journal=Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A|volume=43|issue=2|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316586900695|accessdate=3 April 2016|doi=10.1016/0097-3165(86)90069-5|pages=303–319}}
3. ^{{cite journal|author=Breed, Larry|date=August 2006|title=How We Got To APL\\1130|journal=Vector, Journal of the British APL Association|volume=22|issue=3|url=https://archive.vector.org.uk/art10001190|accessdate=3 April 2016}}
4. ^{{cite journal|author=McDonnell, E.E.|date=September 2000|title=DNA Analysis in APL|journal=Vector, Journal of the British APL Association|volume=17|issue=3|url=https://archive.vector.org.uk/art10005630|accessdate=3 April 2016}}
5. ^{{cite journal|author=Dreifus, Claudia|date=8 August 2000|title=A Math Sleuth Whose Secret Weapon Is Statistics|journal=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/science/conversatipon-with-charles-brenner-math-sleuth-whose-secret-weapon-statistics.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=3 April 2016}}
6. ^{{cite journal|author=Brenner, C.H.|date=January 2014|title=Understanding Y Haplotype Matching Probability|journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics|volume=8|url=https://dna-view.com/downloads/documents/Understanding%20Y%20haplotype%20matching%20probability.pdf|accessdate=3 April 2016|doi=10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.10.007|pages=233–243}}
7. ^{{cite journal|author=Brenner, C.H.|date=February 1997|title=Symbolic Kinship Program|journal=Genetics|volume=145|url=https://www.genetics.org/content/genetics/145/2/535.full.pdf|accessdate=3 April 2016}}
8. ^{{cite journal|author=Smith, Matt|date=6 March 2002|title=Truth Over Death|journal=SF Weekly|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/truth-over-death/Content?oid=2144273&showFullText=true|accessdate=6 April 2016}}
9. ^{{cite journal|author=Whitfield, John|date=23 April 2003|title=World Trade Centre Forensics Break New Ground|journal=Nature|url=https://www.nature.com/news/2003/030421/full/news030421-2.html|accessdate=3 April 2016|doi=10.1038/news030421-2}}
10. ^{{cite news|author=Smith, Matt|date=5 April 2000|title=Ca$h for Genes|journal=SF Weekly|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/cah-for-genes/Content?oid=2138346&showFullText=true|accessdate=5 April 2016}}
11. ^{{citation|author=Brenner, C.H.|title=Bridge Player 1968-1973 London|url=https://dna-view.com/bridge.htm|accessdate=6 April 2016}}
12. ^{{citation|editor=Hui, Roger|title=APL Quotations and Anecdotes|url=https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#Einstein|accessdate=5 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705152219/http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#Einstein#Einstein|archive-date=2018-07-05|dead-url=yes|df=}}
13. ^{{citation|author=Brenner, C.H.|date=3 February 1999|title=The Realm of Mathematics|url=https://dna-view.com/math.htm#realm|accessdate=6 April 2016}}
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