Russell David Lyons (6 September 1957) is an American mathematician, specializing in probability theory on graphs, combinatorics, statistical mechanics, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis.
mathematics in 1979 from Case Western Reserve University,[2] where he became a Putnam Fellow in 1977 and 1978.
[3] He received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Michigan with the thesis A Characterization of Measures Whose Fourier-Stieltjes Transforms Vanish at Infinity, which was supervised by Hugh L. Montgomery and Allen Shields.
[2] Lyons has held visiting positions in the United States, France, and Israel.
[1] In 2014 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul.