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#11201

Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid

1927 - 1985 (58 years)

Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid was an American mathematician and theorist who worked extensively on probability theory, Markov chains, and statistics. The author of more than 70 papers and 6 books, his work touched on such diverse fields as economics, physics, and biology.

#11202

Paul Althaus Smith

1900 - 1980 (80 years)

Paul Althaus Smith was an American mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert–Smith conjecture, which was proved in dimension 3 in 2013. Smith theory is a theory about homeomorphisms of finite order of manifolds, particularly spheres.

#11203

Leo Moser

1921 - 1970 (49 years)

Leo Moser was an Austrian-Canadian mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. A native of Vienna, Leo Moser immigrated with his parents to Canada at the age of three. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1943, and a Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1945. After two years of teaching he went to the University of North Carolina to complete a PhD, supervised by Alfred Brauer. There, in 1950, he began suffering recurrent heart problems. He took a position at Texas Technical College for one year, and joined the faculty of the Uni...

#11204

Allan Birnbaum

1923 - 1976 (53 years)

Allan Birnbaum was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics. Life and career Birnbaum was born in San Francisco. His parents were Russian-born Orthodox Jews. He studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, doing a premedical programme at the same time. After taking a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1945, he spent two years doing graduate courses in science, mathematics and philosophy, planning perhaps a career in the philosophy of science. One of h...

#11205

Solomon Mikhlin

Solomon Mikhlin

1908 - 1990 (82 years)

Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin was a Soviet mathematician of who worked in the fields of linear elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best known for the introduction of the symbol of a singular integral operator, which eventually led to the foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential operators.

#11206

Hyman Levy

1889 - 1975 (86 years)

Prof Hyman Levy was a Scottish-Jewish philosopher, Emeritus Professor of Imperial College London, mathematician, political activist and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life The son of Minna Cohen and Marcus Levy, a picture-framer and occasional art dealer in Edinburgh, Hyman was the third oldest of eight children. They lived at 70 Bristo Street in Edinburgh's South Side.

#11207

Hans Heilbronn

1908 - 1975 (67 years)

Hans Arnold Heilbronn was a mathematician. Education He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised his doctorate. In his thesis, he improved a result of Hoheisel on the size of prime gaps.

#11208

Frigyes Riesz

1880 - 1956 (76 years)

Frigyes Riesz was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, as did his younger brother Marcel Riesz. Life and career He was born into a Jewish family in Győr, Austria-Hungary and died in Budapest, Hungary. Between 1911 and 1919 he was a professor at the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary. The post-WW1 Treaty of Trianon transferred former Austro-Hungarian territory including Kolozsvár to the Kingdom of Romania, whereupon Kolozsvár's name changed to Cluj and the University of Kolozsvár moved to Szeged, Hungary, becoming the University of Szeged.

#11209

Franz Rellich

1906 - 1955 (49 years)

Franz Rellich was an Austrian-German mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.

#11210

Georg Hamel

1877 - 1954 (77 years)

Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. Biography Hamel was born in Düren, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Aachen, Berlin, Göttingen, and Karlsruhe. His doctoral adviser was David Hilbert. He taught at Brünn in 1905, Aachen in 1912, and at the Technical University of Berlin in 1919. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1932 at Zurich and in 1936 at Oslo. He was the author of several important treatises on mechanics. He...

#11211

Arthur Rosenthal

Arthur Rosenthal

1887 - 1959 (72 years)

Arthur Rosenthal was a German mathematician. Career Rosenthal's mathematical studies started in 1905 in Munich, under Ferdinand Lindemann and Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich and the Technical University Munich, as well as at the University of Göttingen. After submitting his thesis on regular polyhedra in 1909, he was promoted to assistant at the Technical University in 1911 and then associate professor in the University of Munich in 1920. The following year he was appointed associate professor in the University of Heidelberg, with a promotion to full professor in 1930. Between 1...

#11212

Billy James Pettis

1913 - 1979 (66 years)

Billy James Pettis , was an American mathematician, known for his contributions to functional analysis. See also Dunford–Pettis propertyDunford–Pettis theoremMilman–Pettis theoremOrlicz–Pettis theoremPettis integralPettis theorem

#11213

Zdeněk Frolík

1933 - 1989 (56 years)

Zdeněk Frolík was a Czech mathematician. His research interests included topology and functional analysis. In particular, his work concerned covering properties of topological spaces, ultrafilters, homogeneity, measures, uniform spaces. He was one of the founders of modern descriptive theory of sets and spaces.

#11214

Arnold Dresden

1882 - 1954 (72 years)

Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. He was a president of the Mathematical Association of America and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

#11215

Alexander Dinghas

Alexander Dinghas

1908 - 1974 (66 years)

Alexander Dinghas was a Greek mathematician. Biography Dinghas was born on February 9, 1908, in Smyrna , Turkey. He did his schooling in Smyrna. He and his family moved to Athens in 1922. Dinghas completed his secondary school and entered the National Technical University of Athens in 1925. He graduated with a diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering in 1930.

#11216

Pao-Lu Hsu

1910 - 1970 (60 years)

Pao-Lu Hsu or Xu Baolu was a Chinese mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Life and career Pao-Lu Hsu was born in Beijing on September 1, 1910, with his ancestral home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was from a prominent intellectual family. In his childhood, he received solid training in both traditional Chinese and modern western cultures. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1933, majoring in mathematics. After his graduation, he worked at Peking University as a teacher. In the meantime, he published a joint paper with Tsai-han Kiang on the numbers ...

#11217

Sumner Byron Myers

1910 - 1955 (45 years)

Sumner Byron Myers was an American mathematician specializing in topology and differential geometry. He studied at Harvard University under H. C. Marston Morse, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1932. Myers then pursued postdoctoral studies at Princeton University before becoming a professor for mathematics at the University of Michigan. He died unexpectedly from a heart attack during the 1955 Michigan–Army football game at Michigan Stadium.

#11218

Witold Hurewicz

1904 - 1956 (52 years)

Witold Hurewicz was a Polish mathematician. Early life and education Witold Hurewicz was born in Łódź, at the time one of the main Polish industrial hubs with economy focused on the textile industry. His father, Mieczysław Hurewicz, was an industrialist born in Wilno, which until 1939 was mainly populated by Poles and Jews. His mother was Katarzyna Finkelsztain who hailed from Biała Cerkiew, a town that belonged to the Kingdom of Poland until the Second Partition of Poland when it was taken by Russia.

#11219

Julia Robinson

1919 - 1985 (66 years)

Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. Her work on Hilbert's tenth problem played a crucial role in its ultimate resolution. Robinson was a 1983 MacArthur Fellow.

#11220

Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox

1906 - 1978 (72 years)

Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research Division of North Carolina State University. Her most important and influential research dealt with experimental design; In 1950 she published the book Experimental Designs, on the subject with W. G. Cochran, which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards.

#11221

George J. Minty

1929 - 1986 (57 years)

George James Minty Jr. was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and discrete mathematics. He is known for the Klee–Minty cube, the Browder–Minty theorem, and the Minty-Vitaver theorem on graph coloring.

#11222

James A. Clarkson

1906 - 1970 (64 years)

James Andrew Clarkson was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics who specialized in number theory. He is known for proving inequalities in Hölder spaces, and derived from them, the uniform convexity of . His proofs are known in mathematics as Clarkson's inequalities. He was an operations' analyst during World War II, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his achievements. He wrote First reader on game theory, and many of his academic papers have been published in several scientific journals. He was an invited speaker at the 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians in...

#11223

Nathan Altshiller Court

1881 - 1968 (87 years)

Nathan Altshiller Court was a Polish–American mathematician. He was a geometer and the author of the popular book College Geometry, who spent most of his career at the University of Oklahoma. Biography Nathan A. Court was born Natan Altszyller on 22 January 1881, in Warsaw, Russian Poland, the eldest of nine children. He attended primary and secondary school in Warsaw, but due to anti-Jewish discrimination could not attend university there. In 1907 he moved to Belgium where he attended the University of Liège and the University of Ghent, receiving his D.Sc. in 1911.

#11224

Edgar Lorch

1907 - 1990 (83 years)

Edgar Raymond Lorch was a Swiss American mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory", he was a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He contributed to the fields general topology, especially metrizable and Baire spaces, group theory of permutation groups and functional analysis, especially spectral theory, convexity in Hilbert spaces and normed rings.

#11225

John Charles Burkill

1900 - 1993 (93 years)

John Charles Burkill was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Burkill was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953. In 1948, Burkill won the Adams Prize. He was Master of Peterhouse until 1973. His doctoral students include Frederick Gehring.

#11226

Alexander Doniphan Wallace

1905 - 1985 (80 years)

Alexander Doniphan Wallace was an American mathematician who introduced proximity spaces. Wallace received from the University of Virginia B.A. in 1935, M.A. in 1936 and Ph.D. in 1940. He was an instructor at Princeton University in 1940–1941 and became an assistant professor in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1941 and remained there until 1947. He was a professor and chair of the mathematics department at Tulane University in 1947–1963. From 1963 until his retirement in 1973 he was a mathematics professor at the University of Florida.

#11227

Lipót Fejér

1880 - 1959 (79 years)

Lipót Fejér was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Leopold Weisz, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900. Biography He was born in Pécs, Austria-Hungary, into the Jewish family of Victoria Goldberger and Samuel Weiss. His maternal great-grandfather Samuel Nachod was a doctor and his grandfather was a renowned scholar, author of a Hebrew-Hungarian dictionary. Leopold's father, Samuel Weiss, was a shopkeeper in Pecs. In primary schools Leopold was not doing well, so for a while his father took him away to home schooling. The future scientist developed his ...

#11228

Geoffrey Shepherd

1898 - 1984 (86 years)

Geoffrey Seddon Shepherd was an American statistician and econometrician. He taught at Iowa State University, after earning his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1932. External links

#11229

Helen M. Walker

1891 - 1983 (92 years)

Helen Mary Walker was a statistician and prominent educational researcher, and the first female president of the American Statistical Association when she was elected in 1944. From 1949 to 1950, she was also president of the American Educational Research Association and served on the Young Women's Christian Association from 1936 to 1950.

#11230

James Lewin McGregor

1921 - 1988 (67 years)

James Lewin McGregor was a mathematician who introduced Karlin–McGregor polynomials. A native of Canada he served in the Canadian military during World War II. He received his undergrad degree from the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD from Cal Tech and then became a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

#11231

Victor Thébault

1882 - 1960 (78 years)

Victor Michael Jean-Marie Thébault was a French mathematician best known for propounding three problems in geometry. The name Thébault's theorem is used by some authors to refer to the first of these problems and by others to refer to the third.

#11232

Edwin E. Floyd

1924 - 1990 (66 years)

Edwin Earl Floyd was an American mathematician, specializing in topology . Education and career Floyd studied received in 1943 his bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama and in 1948 his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia under Gordon Whyburn with thesis The extension of homeomorphisms. He was in the academic year 1948–1949 an instructor at Princeton University and became in 1949 a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, where in the 1960s he collaborated with Pierre Conner in research on cobordism theory. At the University of Virginia, he was the chair of the department of mathematics from 1966 to 1969 and since 1966 the Robert C.

#11233

Arnold Walfisz

1892 - 1962 (70 years)

Arnold Walfisz was a Jewish-Polish mathematician working in analytic number theory. Life After the Abitur in Warsaw , Arnold Walfisz studied in Germany at Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen. Edmund Landau was his doctoral-thesis supervisor at the University of Göttingen. Walfisz lived in Wiesbaden from 1922 through 1927, then he returned to Warsaw, worked at an insurance company and at the mathematical institute of the university . In 1935, together with , he founded the mathematical journal Acta Arithmetica. In 1936, Walfisz became professor at the University of Tbilisi in the nation of Georgia .

#11234

Anne C. Morel

Anne C. Morel was an American mathematician known for her work in logic, order theory, and algebra. She was the first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Education and career Morel graduated in 1941 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She began graduate study in mathematics in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley, but left her studies to serve in the WAVES during World War II. She returned to her studies in Berkeley in 1946, and completed her Ph.D. in 1953. Her dissertation, A Study in the Arithmetic of Order Types, was supervised by Al...

#11235

Eric Harold Neville

1889 - 1961 (72 years)

Eric Harold Neville, known as E. H. Neville was an English mathematician. A heavily fictionalised portrayal of his life is rendered in the 2007 novel The Indian Clerk. He is the one who convinced Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England.

#11236

Clarence Raymond Adams

Clarence Raymond Adams

1898 - 1965 (67 years)

Clarence Raymond Adams was an American mathematician who worked on partial difference equations. He entered Brown University in the fall of 1915 and graduated in 1918. Adams received his PhD in 1922 from Harvard University under the direction of G. D. Birkhoff. On August 17, 1922, he married Rachel Blodgett, who earned a PhD from Radcliffe College in 1921. As a Sheldon Traveling Fellow of Harvard University, he studied at the Sapienza University of Rome under Tullio Levi-Civita and at the University of Göttingen under Richard Courant. In 1923 Adams returned to Brown University as an instructo...

#11237

Hellmuth Kneser

Hellmuth Kneser

1898 - 1973 (75 years)

Hellmuth Kneser was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds. His proof originated the concept of normal surface, a fundamental cornerstone of the theory of 3-manifolds.

#11238

Theophil Henry Hildebrandt

1888 - 1980 (92 years)

Theophil Henry Hildebrandt was an American mathematician who did research on functional analysis and integration theory. Hildebrandt was born in Dover, Ohio, graduated from high school at age 14 and at age 17 in 1905 received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago he earned his master's degree in 1906 and his PhD in 1910, with thesis A Contribution to the Foundations of Fréchet's Calcul Fonctionnel written under the direction of E. H. Moore. He became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1909 and then a full professor in 1923, serving as chair of the mathematics department from 1934 until his retirement in 1957.

#11239

Torsten Carleman

1892 - 1949 (57 years)

Torsten Carleman , born Tage Gillis Torsten Carleman, was a Swedish mathematician, known for his results in classical analysis and its applications. As the director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute for more than two decades, Carleman was the most influential mathematician in Sweden.

#11240

Harold Douglas Ursell

1907 - 1969 (62 years)

Harold Douglas Ursell was an English mathematician who is best known for Ursell function.

#11241

Louis Weisner

1899 - 1988 (89 years)

Louis Weisner was an American-Canadian mathematician at the University of New Brunswick who introduced Weisner's method. He graduated in 1923 from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His thesis Groups whose maximal cyclic subgroups are independent was supervised by Frank Nelson Cole. As a postdoc, Weisner was an instructor at the University of Rochester. At Hunter College he was appointed an instructor in 1927 and was successively promoted to assistant professor and associate professor. When he was an associate professor in 1954, the Board of Higher Education of the City of New ...

#11242

Heinrich Jung

1876 - 1953 (77 years)

Heinrich Wilhelm Ewald Jung was a German mathematician, who specialized in geometry and algebraic geometry. Biography Heinrich Jung was born as the son of a Bergrat in Essen and studied from 1895 to 1899 mathematics, physics, and chemistry in Marburg/Lahn and Berlin under outstanding professors including Friedrich Schottky, Kurt Hensel, Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs, Hermann Amandus Schwarz, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, and Max Planck. In his 1899 doctoral dissertation Über die kleinste Kugel, die eine räumliche Figur einschließt under Schottky he proved the eponymous Jung's Theorem. In 1902 he completed his Habilitation thesis in Marburg and remained there until 1908 as a privatdocent.

#11243

Felix Bernstein

Felix Bernstein

1878 - 1956 (78 years)

Felix Bernstein , was a German Jewish mathematician known for proving in 1896 the Schröder–Bernstein theorem, a central result in set theory, and less well known for demonstrating in 1924 the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis.

#11244

Glen E. Baxter

1930 - 1983 (53 years)

Glen Earl Baxter was an American mathematician. Baxter's fields of research include probability theory, combinatorial analysis, statistical mechanics and functional analysis. He is known for the Baxter strong limit theorem. Lately, his 1960 work on the derivation of a specific operator identity that later bore his name, the Rota–Baxter identity, and emanated from some of the fundamental results of the famous probabilist Frank Spitzer in random walk theory has received attention in fields as remote as renormalization theory in perturbative quantum field theory.

#11245

Vojtěch Jarník

1897 - 1970 (73 years)

Vojtěch Jarník was a Czech mathematician. He worked for many years as a professor and administrator at Charles University, and helped found the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He is the namesake of Jarník's algorithm for minimum spanning trees.

#11246

J. V. Uspensky

1883 - 1947 (64 years)

James Victor Uspensky was a Russian and American mathematician notable for writing Theory of Equations. Biography Uspensky graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1906 and received his doctorate from the University of St. Petersburg in 1910. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1921.

#11247

Otto Schreier

1901 - 1929 (28 years)

Otto Schreier was a Jewish-Austrian mathematician who made major contributions in combinatorial group theory and in the topology of Lie groups. Life His parents were the architect Theodor Schreier and his wife Anna . From 1920 Otto Schreier studied at the University of Vienna and took classes with Wilhelm Wirtinger, Philipp Furtwängler, Hans Hahn, Kurt Reidemeister, Leopold Vietoris, and Josef Lense. In 1923 he obtained his doctorate, under the supervision of Philipp Furtwängler, entitled On the expansion of groups . In 1926 he completed his habilitation with Emil Artin at the University o...

#11248

William Frederick Eberlein

1917 - 1986 (69 years)

William Frederick Eberlein was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and mathematical physics. Life Eberlein studied from 1936 to 1942 at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University, where he received in 1942 a PhD for the thesis Closure, Convexity, and Linearity in Banach Spaces under the direction of Marshall Stone.

#11249

John Greenlees Semple

1904 - 1985 (81 years)

John Greenlees Semple was a British mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Publications Algebraic Projective Geometry. By J. G. Semple and G. T. Kneebone. Pp. viii, 404. 35s. 1952. .

#11250

Stanisław Mazur

Stanisław Mazur

1905 - 1981 (76 years)

Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions.

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