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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2022-02-03 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006867b.htm person Cohn Harry I. AACR2 27 July 1940 7 May 2021 Place of Birth Bucharest, Romania Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mathematician University Administrator Harry Cohn was a mathematician noted for his expertise in probability theory and random processes, including branching processes and products of random matrices with connections to ergodic properties. He was particularly noted for his significant contributions to the theory of Markov chains, non-homogenous Markov chains and simulated annealing. After 12 years lecturing in mathematics in Romania and Israel, Cohn was appointed Lecturer at the Australian National University in 1975. He was Reader in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne from 1978 until his retirement in 2003. 1963 1970 Career position - Lecturer, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy of Sciences 1966 1966 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Bucharest, Romania 1970 1974 Career position - Lecturer, Technicon - Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 1974 1975 Career position - Lecturer, Haifa University, Israel 1975 1978 Career position - Lecturer, Australian National University 1978 2003 Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Melbourne 1988 2021 Award - Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1989 1992 Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne 2003 2003 Life event - Retired The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Reader in Mathematics 1978 - 2003: Head, Department of Mathematics 1989 - 1992

 'Cohn, Harry I.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cohn, Harry I. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Harry I. Cohn 27 July 1940 - 7 May 2021 Klebaner, Fima Harry I. Cohn 27 July 1940 - 7 May 2021 2021 Australian Mathematical Society gazette 48 5 228-9