Nicholas Hugh Bingham (born 19 March 1945 in York) is a British mathematician working in the field of probability theory, stochastic analysis and analysis more generally.

Education and career

Bingham is currently a Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, and is a Visiting Professor at both the London School of Economics and the University of Liverpool.^[1][2][3]

After undergraduate studies in mathematics at Trinity College, Oxford, where he achieved a first class honours degree, he was a research student at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1969 under the supervision of David George Kendall. In 1996 he also obtained a ScD from the University of Cambridge.^[4]

He serves as Associate Editor of Expositiones Mathematicae and Obituaries Editor of the London Mathematical Society.

With C.M. Goldie and Jozef L. Teugels, Bingham wrote the book Regular Variation;^[5] with Rüdiger Kiesel Risk-neutral Valuation: Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives;^[6] with J. M. Fry Regression.^[7]

Personal life

Bingham is married to Cecilie (m. 1980). They have 3 children: James (1982), Ruth (1985), and Tom (1993).^[8]

He is a competitive runner, with a best marathon time of 2:46:52 in the 1991 Abingdon Marathon, aged 46.^[8] He is a member of Barnet and District AC.