Anatole Beck
Anatole Beck (born March 19, 1930 in New York City , † December 21, 2014 ) was an American mathematician.
Beck studied at Brooklyn College (bachelor's degree in 1951) and received his doctorate in 1956 from Yale University with Shizuo Kakutani (On the Random Ergodic Theorem). In 1958 he became an assistant professor and from 1966 professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .
Among other things, he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich, the London School of Economics and visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen, the University of Warwick, the University of London and the Hebrew University.
He dealt with ergodic theory , topological dynamics, probability in Banach spaces, measure theory , addiction theory and mathematics in the social sciences.
Fonts
- with Michael N. Bleicher, Donald W. Crowe: Excursions into Mathematics, AK Peters 2000 (first 1967)
- Continuous flows in the plane, Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences , Springer Verlag 1974 (with Jonathan and Mirit Lewin)
- with M. Bleicher: Storage of convex sets in a similar set, in Konrad Jacobs: Selecta Mathematica, Volume 3, Springer Verlag 1971
- A paradox. The hare and the turtle, in Konrad Jacobs: Selecta Mathematica, Volume 5, Springer Verlag 1979
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Anatole Beck in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin: In Memoriam: Anatole Beck. Retrieved August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Anatole Beck in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beck, Anatole |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 2014 |